- Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker of the Home on Tuesday in a historic vote.
- Along with the title, McCarthy will lose his larger wage and enormous Capitol Hill workplace.
- He additionally will lose entry to high-level intelligence briefings from the White Home.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s time as speaker of the Home ended as remarkably because it started: for the primary time in US historical past, his fellow representatives voted to oust him as their chief.
However the title is not the one factor the California Republican is shedding.
The movement to vacate the speaker got here days after McCarthy labored with some Democrats to move a last-minute funding bill that averted a authorities shutdown, angering some hard-right members of his occasion like Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Rep. Patrick McHenry is now serving as interim speaker till the Home holds one other election, the final certainly one of which took 15 rounds of voting for McCarthy to earn sufficient help to win.
Regardless of sustaining the help of the overwhelming majority of Home Republicans, McCarthy mentioned Tuesday he wouldn’t be in search of the speakership once more.
So it seems McCarthy actually is out of the place he held for about eight months. This is what else he is shedding.
The speaker’s wage
With the speakership, McCarthy was making an annual wage of $223,500.
Going again to a daily member of the Home means McCarthy’s wage can be lower drastically to $174,000, which is what members of Congress who don’t maintain management roles make.
The Gang of Eight intel briefings
The Gang of Eight is an off-the-cuff title used to confer with the eight leaders in Congress who’re included in categorized intelligence briefings by the chief department.
The group consists of the leaders of each events in each the Home and the Senate, in addition to the chairs and rating minority members of the intelligence committees in each the Home and the Senate.
With McCarthy out as speaker, he’ll not have entry to these White Home intelligence briefings.
The speaker’s suite
The speaker of the Home occupies the Workplace of the Speaker within the Capitol. The speaker’s workplace is a big, elaborately adorned suite positioned close to the middle of the principle Capitol constructing.
McCarthy moved into the speaker’s workplace at the start of this 12 months earlier than he really had the votes to get elected speaker, prompting Gaetz to accuse him of “squatting.”
As a consequence of restricted area within the Capitol, most representatives’ workplaces are positioned within the congressional workplace buildings adjoining to the Capitol constructing.
The buildings are nonetheless a part of the Capitol advanced and near the precise Capitol, however the longer stroll from the Home chamber to McCarthy’s potential new workplace in one other constructing ought to give him further time to consider what precisely went mistaken in his time as speaker.
