The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker — a historic moment that threatens to plunge House Republicans even further into chaos and turmoil.
No House speaker has ever before been ousted through the passage of a resolution to remove them.
The effort to push McCarthy out comes as a bloc of hardline conservatives have continued to thwart him, voting against key priorities of GOP leadership and repeatedly throwing up roadblocks to the speaker's agenda.
McCarthy is denying reports that he is expected to step down from Congress before the end of his term — telling reporters on Friday that he still has "work to do."
McCarthy was elected as speaker in January after a historic stalemate that involved 15 rounds of voting over five days. It was the longest speaker contest in 164 years.