Kevin McCarthy took a victory lap Wednesday, but several House Republicans are already calling for his Speaker gavel.
took a victory lap; the House of Representatives had passed legislation to stave off a default of the national debt after months of contentious negotiations. “Tonight, we all made history,” the Republican Speaker said from behind a lectern emblazoned with the name of the legislation, the Fiscal Responsibility Act. “This is the biggest cut and savings this Congress has ever voted for.”
But not everyone was happy. Of course, given that Republicans have a majority in the House, Democrats are in charge of the Senate, andis in the White House, any bill raising the debt ceiling was going to be a compromise. Ultimately more Democrats voted for the bill than Republicans did, raising questions about whether McCarthy got outfoxed by Biden in the debt ceiling negotiations.
It was one tough vote for Democrats, but for McCarthy, the implications of Wednesday night are much further-reaching. It was not hard to find a grumbling Republican wandering the halls of the Capitol this week. “I can’t tell you how disappointed I am the way that this went down. It didn’t have to go down this way…. We gave everything away and there was no middle ground here,” Republican congresswomantold reporters.
“We were told they’d never put a bill on the floor that would take more Democrats than [Republicans] to pass. We were told that,” RepresentativeSome of the complaints came with a threat—one that has lingered over McCarthy’s Speakership from day one: a call to take back his gavel. “If we can’t kill it, we’re going to have to regroup and figure out the whole leadership arrangement again,”
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