'That was easy, huh?' Rep. Kevin McCarthy becomes speaker of the House: McCarthy vowed that among the "very first hearings" the new Republican-controlled House would conduct would relate to the crisis at the U.S. Southern border and that he and his fellow Republicans would soon vote to "repeal funding for 87,000 new IRS agents." According to the Daily Mail, he likewise promised: restoring the one-member "motion to vacate" the chair rule, which would allow a single representative to introduce a resolution to oust the speaker, should he fail to live up to his promises; https://www.theblaze.com/news/that-was-easy-huh-rep-kevin-mccarthy-becomes-speaker-of-the-house It's also reported that so many kids have been taken out of the public schools that, schools are having to close or merge with other schools to fill the seats! :good: Where my daughter teaches, the district wants to close three elementary schools. Of course, a lot of parents are angry that their neighborhood schools that perhaps their children could walk to will be closing and kids will have to attend schools farther away. In California, we don't have school buses, except the "short buses" for special-needs children. Most parents in the suburbs drive their kids to school and back every day. I asked her why they will be closing those schools and I believe she thinks it's because of the proliferation of charter schools. Public School Districts Begin Closing Schools After Losing Nearly 2 Million Students During The Pandemic: Americans are pulling their kids out of public schools. Between 2020 and 2021, almost 2 million students stop attending public schools. Public schools in the U.S. have lost more than a million students since the start of the pandemic, prompting some districts across the country to close buildings because they don’t have enough pupils or funding to keep them open. The school board in Jefferson County, Colo., outside Denver, voted in November to close 16 schools. St. Paul, Minn., last summer closed five schools. The Oakland, Calif., school board last February voted to close seven schools after years of declining enrollment and financial strife. Declining birthrates, a rise in home schooling and growing competition from private and charter schools are contributing to the decline in traditional public school enrollment, according to school officials. Anyone who can is pulling their kids from public schools. Biden Chooses ‘Wall’ for Photo of First Border Visit — After Ending Trump’s Project: President Joe Biden tweeted an image of his first-ever border visit Sunday that featured part of the “wall,” or border fence, in El Paso, Texas — after he and his party shut down President Donald Trump’s border wall. Biden ran in 2020 on a promise to build “not another foot” of Trump’s border project after Democrats refused to fund it in 2019 and claimed that it was motivated by racism and the desire to keep brown or black people out. As soon as he took office, Biden halted construction of the high bollard fencing that Trump had been building along the wall — though the Biden administration later quietly filled in some gaps that had been left behind. Yet with thousands of migrants pouring across the border daily, and millions entering the U.S., often illegally, since he took office, Biden was under pressure to visit the border for the first time in a half century of politics. He chose to tweet an image of himself doing so — from the official presidential account — flanked by Border Patrol officers and walking along the fence that exists in El Paso, one of the most secure points on the border. There was also an irony in Biden using Border Patrol agents as props in a photo: he has refused to apologize for claiming falsely in 2021 that agents were using whips to beat Haitian migrants. They were later exonerated. 
four seats for Freedom Caucus members on the House Rules Committee, which controls which legislation comes to the floor for a vote;
a vote on term limits for both representatives and senators;
transferring the power to determine committee leadership to committee members themselves and away from party leadership;
and fiscal responsibility.
