Democrats Are Shocked to Encounter the Consequences of Their Own Actions

One of the first acts to which House speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry committed the Republican conference he inherited from the ousted speaker Kevin McCarthy was retaliation against prominent Democrats.

On Tuesday night, the House Administration Committee delivered the news to former speaker Nancy Pelosi that she would have to vacate her “hideaway” office in the Capitol, a small chamber conveniently located closer to where the legislative action takes place. On Wednesday morning, onetime Democratic majority leader Steny Hoyer was ordered out of a similar hideaway he had occupied. Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman described the moves as an act of “revenge” against Democrats for voting unanimously with eight insurgent Republicans to remove McCarthy from the speakership. “Expect more of this, GOP sources tell us,” he warned.