Those hardliners were among the House Republicans who opposed McCarthy's election as speaker in January until he agreed to concessions that make it easy to challenge his leadership.
They were also among the 71 Republicans who opposed the compromise debt ceiling legislation passed last week.
McCarthy oversees a narrow House Republican majority of 222-213, meaning that he can lose only four votes from his own party on any measure that faces uniform opposition from Democrats.
McCarthy endured 15 floor votes in January until he finally won the vote for speaker, agreeing to a set of demands that the hardliners now say he violated to pass the debt ceiling bill.
Is it going to be through consensus, or is it going to be by fiat?” said Republican Representative Chip Roy.
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