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This week, there was another revolt: one against Jim Jordan, the House GOP’s latest speaker-designate.

But what’s unique about this revolt was who led it: people like Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), who is this week’s guest on Deep Dive.

Lawler represents a Biden district just north of New York City. Other Members who joined him in the emerging “NeverJordan” faction are from similar districts, or they’re committee chairs and cardinals and institutionalists who finally became fed up with the far-right faction that thrust the House of Representatives into this mess in the first place.

At POLITICO, we’ve dubbed this “the revenge of the squishes.”

On this episode of Deep Dive, host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza joins Rep. Lawler to learn how similarly-minded members of Congress have organized against Jordan and his allies; and how Republicans plan on getting the House back to work.

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