在2022年联邦众议院选举中,共和党以微弱的优势赢得了多数席位,并于2023年初开始新一届国会。自由核心小组成员积极参与了后续的议长选举,但就是否支持凯文·麦卡锡担任议长的问题发生了分歧。[88]在众议院共和党内部选举之前,自由核心小组就提出了一系列要求以削弱议长权利,并增加核心小组和普通共和党议员的权利,从而进一步改变众议院的议程。[89]其中包括恢复“罢免动议(英语:Motion to vacate)”以降低议长罢免之门槛、允许仅10%的众议院共和党会议成员强制对任何修正案进行表决,从而降低议长权利。此外还包括将哈斯特尔特规则写入法典,从而阻止除多数党(共和党)所提立法以外的其他立法。[89]
Beavers, Olivia. Republican quits House Freedom Caucus. The Hill. 2017-03-26 [2017-04-10]. (原始内容存档于2019-04-04). Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) resigned Sunday from the House Freedom Caucus, indicating he did so because he wanted to vote for the Republican healthcare proposal the right-wing caucus so adamantly opposed.
Lizza, Ryan. A House divided. The New Yorker. 2015-12-07 [2017-04-10]. (原始内容存档于2021-02-07). Meadows is one of the more active members of the House Freedom Caucus, an invitation-only group of about forty right-wing conservatives that formed at the beginning of this year.
French, Lauren. House Freedom Caucus to break with leadership on budget. Politico. 2016-03-14 [2016-07-14]. (原始内容存档于2021-02-25). Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price of Georgia and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) have labored to gain the support of the far-right caucus
Stone, Peter. Meet the Congressman Who Is Viktor Orbán's Biggest Fanboy. The New Republic. 2022-10-28 [2022-11-24]. (原始内容存档于2022-12-01). A member of the House's far-right Freedom Caucus and co-chair of the Hungarian Caucus, Harris tried to torpedo the resolution during floor debate by attacking a provision that called for setting up a NATO unit to help its members build democratic institutions.
David Hosansky (编). The American Congress. CQ Press. 2019 [2023-02-03]. ISBN 978-1544350639. (原始内容存档于2023-01-04). This set up a difficult battle for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to reach a consensus within his caucus between mainstream Republicans and the forty-member-strong Freedom Caucus, a group of far-right libertarian, isolationist, ...
Steven S. Smith; Jason M. Roberts; Ryan J. Vander Wielen (编). The American Congress. Rowman & Littlefield. 2019: 14 [2023-02-03]. ISBN 978-1538125847. (原始内容存档于2023-01-04). The parties are very polarized: the middle is empty, so that no Democrat is to the right of any Republican and no Republican is to the left of any Democrat. The Freedom Caucus members are located on the far right.
Homan, Patrick; Lantis, Jeffrey. "We the People?" Historical Foundations of Factionalism. The Battle for U.S. Foreign Policy. 2019-12-05: 57–87. ISBN 978-3030301705. S2CID 212991762. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30171-2_3. As president, Trump has variously aligned himself with the positions of the far-right Freedom Caucus and with establishment Republican leaders.
Geyman, John. Crisis in U.S. Health Care: Corporate Power Still Blocks Reform. International Journal of Health Services. January 2018, 48 (1): 5–27. PMID 28971720. S2CID 206411764. doi:10.1177/0020731417729654. The far-right Freedom Caucus in the House called for full repeal whatever the consequences, but by then the ACA had become more popular with the public and even drew support...
Melanie Zanona. Republican leaders face threat of revived Freedom Caucus in GOP-led House. CNN. 2022-03-08 [2023-02-03]. (原始内容存档于2022-12-13). Past iterations of the group – which was formed as an ultra-conservative alternative to the Republican Study Committee but has since become more of a Trump loyalty club – were more focused on process and transparency concerns, as well as fiscal conservatism. Some of the more veteran members of the group are still emphasizing that as a top priority.
Jay Newton-Small. How Paul Ryan Outfoxed House Conservatives. Time. 2021-10-20 [2023-02-03]. (原始内容存档于2022-12-08) (英语). The House Freedom Caucus has had a lot of demands of late: conditions under which they’d support anyone to be Speaker, changes they’d like to see made in the House to decentralize power, ... The as-of-yet unformed bill is almost guaranteed to have levels of spending the fiscally conservative Freedom Caucus will find highly objectionable – they have never supported any bipartisan deal that has come out of the Senate.
Loiaconi, Stephen. For Freedom Caucus, defying Trump could have consequences. WJLA-TV. 2017-03-24 [2017-03-31]. (原始内容存档于2019-04-04). The House Freedom Caucus, a cadre of conservatives, libertarians and others who have shown no hesitation to buck the party leadership, has been heavily critical of the AHCA
Breaking: House Republicans withdraw health care bill. KFOR-TV. CNN Wire. 2017-03-24 [2017-03-25]. (原始内容存档于2018-09-21). Freedom Caucus members stood by their ideological objections to a bill they say does not go far enough in repealing Obamacare.
Gould, Joe. Defying Trump, House approves defense bill with veto-proof majority. defensenews.com. Sightline Media Group. 2020-12-08 [2020-01-24]. (原始内容存档于2021-03-12). The House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of roughly three-dozen conservatives, backed Trump's position Tuesday and said its members would vote against the bill.
Anna Paulina Luna Says Colleague 'Threatened' Her Over McCarthy Stance. Newsweek. 2022-12-31 [2023-02-03]. (原始内容存档于2023-02-12). In a statement issued to Newsweek on Saturday morning, Luna said: "The member that called me was NOT MTG. Marjorie came down and helped me in my primary and is also a fellow member of the Freedom Caucus. She would never do that to me."