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The vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker -- launched by Republican hard-line Rep. Matt Gaetz -- was a long time coming When the final words came down on Tuesday from the chamber's presiding officer, there was a hush in the previously raucous chamber -- a momentarily silent acknowledgement of the History that had just been made. "The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant." The potential fallout is vast. With Kevin McCarthy removed from his role by a small faction of his own party, the House is now, for all intents and purposes, paralyzed on accomplishing its most important tasks -- with no speaker in place and no roadmap for effective governance, even as new deadlines approach to continue funding the federal government and pass bills that might actually become law in a divided Washington. The vote to oust McCarthy -- launched by Republican hard-line Rep. Matt Gaetz, embraced by seven conservative c...

Sen. Alex Padilla on Sunday pushed back against what he called "Republican rhetoric" around the expected expiration of Title 42 Sen. Alex Padilla on Sunday pushed back against what he called "Re public an rhetoric" around the expected expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era policy which allows the expulsion of migrants on public Health grounds. "Here's the biggest frustration for all the Re public ans rhetoric about chaos at the border : No. 1, they have yet to come forward with a plan of how to better handle this scenario," Padilla, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's immigration, citizenship and border safety subcommittee, told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz. "No. 2, they have not been willing to commit the additional resources that the departments and agencies say that they need to handle this big influx," Padilla said. Conservatives including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott say Title 42 should remain i...