Maga Republican boasts small House majority helps right-wingers amid ongoing chaos

Pennsylvania Rep Scott Perry argued that the House GOP’s narrow majority is to the benefit of hard-right Republicans as leadership vies for their support on each individual vote to get measures passed.

Speaking about the 2022 midterms, Mr Perry said, “We knew we were going to take the majority”.

The Pennsylvanian, a former chair of the House Freedom Caucus, said during a panel discussion at CPAC on Thursday in National Harbor, Maryland that “some in the party thought there was going to be a big majority. But we didn’t see that because we hadn’t earned it”.

“We thought there was going to be a small majority. And the good news about that is that folks like myself, chairman of the Freedom Caucus and Russ Fulcher, a member of the Freedom Caucus, knew that we’re going to potentially have an outsize influence so we prepared for it,” he added. “So we went to the guy that wanted to be the speaker six months before that and said things have got to change around here.”

Hardright members have wreaked plenty of chaos during the 118th Congress, including the ousting of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who needed 15 votes in January to grasp the gavel after a drawn-out fight with righting members of the Republican ranks.

The process to replace him was also devoured by intra-party Republican rancour, with Speaker Mike Johnson eventually being elected after several others failed.

Scott Perry

“The urgency in America to save the Republic needs to be addressed. People are demanding it and we should deliver it, and that’s what the majority is all about. So we can’t keep doing the same things the same way with the same people and expect a different outcome,” Mr Perry said on Thursday.

“I will tell you this. There are Republicans, there