For the first time in United States history, the speaker of the House was ousted after eight House Republicans and all Democrats voted to vacate the speakership Tuesday.
Former President Donald Trump blamed the Saturday attack by Hamas on Israel on President Joe Biden and his prisoner exchange with Iran, which also allowed funding to flow to the isolated Islamic republic.
Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) said Israel will have to respond with tremendous force and slammed President Joe Biden for putting policies in place that fueled the conflict.
The White House is trying to knock down any suggestion that $6 billion in Iranian assets it unfroze as part of a prisoner swap last month has anything to do with the terror attack Hamas carried out on Israel.
The decision to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from his role as speaker of the House may have significantly limited the House's ability to respond to international crises like Hamas's attack on Israel.
The United States Office of Palestinian Affairs initially tried to calm the conflict between Hamas and Israel with a post that read: "Terror and violence will solve nothing."
