White House press secretary Jen Psaki mocked House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's eight hour and 32-minute floor speech during Friday's press briefing.
'Well, Kevin McCarthy said a lot of words - a lot of words. I just want to emphasize that. Over the course of eight and a half hours,' Psaki said.
She then went through the California Republican's greatest hits of the evening.
'For those of you who didn't watch all of it, he mused about - he shared his wish that he could have been in Tiananmen Square,' she said. 'He mused about whether or not Abraham Lincoln was actually assassinated.'
'He shared his hope - or his thought - or dream, I'm not sure, about picturing America in a swim meet after World War II against every other country,' she continued.
'But in eight and a half hours what he did not talk about was cutting the cost of childcare, cutting the cost of eldercare, what we were going to do around the country to bring more women into the workforce, to protect our climate for generations to come,' she added. 'That, in our view, is all you need to know about Kevin McCarthy's agenda and what he supports.'
White House press secretary Jen Psaki mocked House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's eight hour and 32-minute floor speech during Friday's press briefing. 'Well, Kevin McCarthy said a lot of words - a lot of words,' she said
McCarthy used his leadership privileges to deliver a 'magic minute' speech, that stretched to nearly 5 a.m., in order to delay a final House vote on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better social spending bill
McCarthy used his leadership privileges to deliver a 'magic minute' speech, that stretched to nearly 5 a.m., in order to delay a final House vote on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better social spending bill.
Democrats got the bill over the line, with only one defection, Friday morning, in a vote of 220 to 213.
During the eight-plus hour speech,
