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The speaker’s ultimate removal is the latest moment of high drama in a year in which the Republican-controlled House has brought Washington to the brink of default and the edge of a government shutdown.

| Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job on Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in US history.

Mr McCarthy’s fate was uncertain after the House earlier rejected by a vote of 218-208 a motion that would have blocked the leadership challenge to him, brought bySome 11 Republicans joined with the chamber’s Democrats to allow the challenge to go forward. “We’ll see what happens,” Mr McCarthy, 58, told reporters before the vote.

Mr McCarthy’s party controls the chamber by a narrow 221-212 majority, and it would take as few as five Republican defections to threaten his hold on power if all Democrats also voted against him. “Think long and hard before you plunge us into chaos, because that’s where we’re headed,” said Republican Representative Tom Cole.

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