Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was vacated from his duties as Speaker.

Kevin McCarthy’s short run as Speaker of the House was cut short. After the last bill past by the House to stop the government from shutting down, a small group of Republicans wanted to start the vacating process to get McCarthy out of his Speaker roll.

With the new Vacate process going to a vote, and some Republicans against McCarthy, the vote to outs McCarthy were 216-210. This was a historic vote because it was the first time in our countries history a vote has removed a speaker.

The Republican party has no official replacement for McCarthy, but some names have been thrown around like Tom Emmer and Steve Scalise.

Democrats have not come to McCarthy’s rescue and voted to oust him. They now intend to nominate Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker.

While all this goes on in the House, all the proceedings will grind to a halt. Patrick McHenry is now serving as the “speaker pro tempore” until there is a new speaker voted in.

This article is definitely news because it is the first time our speaker was voted out and with this part of the government is coming to a halt. I liked that NPR had a non biased look on this situation, they just presented the facts and let the reader think of it as they think of it. The structure was also nice it was separated into 4 parts based on what you are trying to learn. The article also had a multiple links throughout the article to help the reader with information they don’t understand or know about, if this subject wasn’t covered in my government class I definetly could have gotten lost in the reading.