Speaker Kevin McCarthy is suddenly confronting a new threat to his power
brushed off the disruption as healthy political debate, part of his"risk taker" way of being a leader — not too different, he said, from the 15-vote spectacle it took in January for him to finally convince his colleagues to elect him as speaker. With a paper-thin GOP majority, any few Republicans have outsized sway.
It's all setting the stage for a potentially disastrous showdown ahead, when Congress will need to pass spending bills to fund the government at the levels set by the McCarthy-Biden debt package, or risk a shutdown in federal government operations when the new fiscal year starts Oct. 1. Not only did the conservatives object to the deal with Biden as insufficient, they claim it violated the terms of an agreement they had reached with McCarthy to roll back spending even further, to 2022 levels, to make him speaker.
“We never promised we’re going to be all at ‘22 levels —I said we would strive to get to the ’22 level or the equivalent amount," McCarthy said Wednesday."We’ve met all that criteria.” If Congress fails to pass the spending bills by fall it risks a federal government shutdown — an outcome conservatives have forced multiple times before, starting in the Clinton era when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich led the House into a budget standoff, and again in 2013 when conservatives shut down the government as they tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
“This is insane,” said Republican Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas."This is not the way a governing majority is expected to behave, and frankly, I think there will be a political cost to it.”
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