Hurt feelings prevailed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday as Republican leaders, furious over the ouster of ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, sought to punish their Democratic counterparts with petty office politics.
Two top Democrats in the lower chamber confirmed that the office of the speaker pro tem, Patrick McHenry, had ordered them to pack up and move their staffed offices from the Capitol building to smaller offices around the greater Capitol complex, with just hours warning. It was an unabashed act of revenge-seeking that signaled one thing: House Republican leaders are very upset.
