The newly minted chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Andy Harris joins “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss the conservative cohort’s priorities heading into the elections and the 119th Congress.
The House Freedom Caucus is no stranger to putting pressure on House GOP leadership. The concessions secured by the caucus and other conservatives at the beginning of the 118th Congress ultimately led to then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s undoing. At times, McCarthy’s successor, House Speaker Mike Johnson, has also been challenged from his rightward flank.
Nevertheless, as Harris, R-Md., looks to the next Congress, the new Freedom Caucus chairman claims his relationship with Johnson is based on mutual trust. “If Speaker Johnson looks me in the eye and says something, I expect him to follow through on it. And if he looks at me in the eye, and I say…
