Chip Roy Is The Tip Of The Iceberg 💨

Newsy: House Freedom Caucus members are signing up to take shifts to guard the House floor in order to prevent resolutions they’d consider unsavory from slipping through that could curb their power, per two R sources.

This Floor Action Response Team (“FART”) aims to guard…

— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) April 18, 2024

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus are signing up to take shifts to monitor the chamber floor in order to prevent their own party leaders from making unilateral moves that could curb their power. 

The Freedom Caucus’ Floor Action Response Team, shorthanded as “FART,” aims to guard against an unannounced request to pass resolutions that would stealthily limit their leverage against leadership, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly. 

While one of the Republicans said the group largely doesn’t expect major developments, members also don’t want to be caught flat-footed if a GOP colleague tried to seek unanimous consent or a voice vote for a resolution that would change the House’s structure. Two potential examples of threats the Freedom Caucus perceives: the removal of its members from the Rules Committee or changes to agreements made at the beginning of this Congress with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Who knew the House floor was such a den of iniquity? Or that it should be watched over by a FART? 💨 

Like a fart in a hurricane. And, as ever, putting the national interest first. The objectives of FART are to not get Massie and Roy kicked off the Rules Committee, and not to raise the threshold for the majority bringing a motion to vacate the chair. Ironically, that power may soon pass to the Democrats anyway.

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