With a Sept. 30 deadline, the House speaker confronts right-wing demands to cut spending, limit migration, prop up Trump and impeach Biden — and veiled threats to his gavel.
Patrick Semansky / AP fileWASHINGTON — When the House returns Tuesday, Speaker Kevin McCarthy will confront a series of legislative deadlines and intraparty conflicts that have been bubbling up for months, raising fears of a government shutdown when money expires on Sept. 30.
"There's a perfect storm brewing in the House in the near future, in September," Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., a member of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, told MSNBC's Jen Psaki in an interview Sunday.“On the one hand, we’ve got to pass a [short-term funding bill]. And we also have the impeachment issue. And we also have members of the House, led by my good friend, Chip Roy, who are concerned about policy issues,” Buck said.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said the right feels betrayed by McCarthy’s budget deal with Biden and wants to undo it in spending bills.Republicans aligned with former President Donald Trump are jumping to his defense against the torrent of criminal charges he faces, in part by including policies in must-pass bills that would restrict the powers of the FBI and the Justice Department, as well as cut federal funding for the three prosecutors who have secured grand jury indictments of him.
McCarthy has been moving in the direction of an impeachment inquiry, calling it a “natural step forward” for the House GOP to gather more facts. But he recently made it clear he won’t open such an inquiry unilaterally — a majority of the House would first have to vote on it. With only four votes to spare in his Republican majority, it's not clear McCarthy has the votes.
“The United States isn’t arming Ukraine out of a sense of charity. We are backing a fellow democracy because it is in our direct interest to do so,” McConnell said Monday on the Senate floor. “Republicans should be pressing President Biden to show more of it instead of dreaming about American retreat.”
“We usually get blamed for it, one way or the other,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D. said. “I think most people just want to see us try and figure out a way to keep the trains running.”
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