{"id":1024813,"date":"2023-07-25T13:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1024813"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:42:04","slug":"dnc-statement-on-kevin-mccarthys-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-kevin-mccarthys-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Statement on Kevin McCarthy\u2019s Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>In response to Kevin McCarthy\u2019s comments last night on Fox, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that Donald Trump is the real Speaker of the House. He has made sure the House majority is little more than an arm of his 2024 campaign, and Kevin McCarthy is happy to do his bidding \u2013 promising to expunge Trump\u2019s own bipartisan impeachments, and now threatening President Biden with a baseless impeachment to distract from their lack of any meaningful agenda and Trump\u2019s own significant challenges. This is another political stunt intended to help Trump, which House Republicans have already admitted. Instead of wasting the American people\u2019s time and money carrying water for Trump, Republicans should join President Biden in working to provide relief for hardworking families, lowering costs, and bringing jobs back to America instead of playing reruns of the Trump show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Kevin McCarthy\u2019s comments last night on Fox, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s clear that Donald Trump is the real Speaker of the House. He has made sure the House majority is little more than an arm of his 2024 campaign, and Kevin McCarthy is happy to do his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Statement on Kevin McCarthy\u2019s Comments - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-kevin-mccarthys-comments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-25T13:42:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-kevin-mccarthys-comments\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-kevin-mccarthys-comments\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Statement on Kevin McCarthy\u2019s Comments - 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