No clear strategy. No certain support. Not much time.
WASHINGTON — With no clear strategy, no sure support and not much time left, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy nevertheless vowed Wednesday he would not give up trying to persuade his colleagues to pass a temporary funding bill to prevent a federal government shutdown.
Mike Lawler, one of a group of Republicans representing House districts carried by President Joe Biden in 2020 and a critic of Freedom Caucus brinksmanship, characterized that meeting in an MSNBC interview early Thursday as “an airing of the grievances.” “It’s yet another reminder that in both houses, a small group of hard-right Republicans are dead set to grind the gears of government to a halt,” Schumer said.
McCarthy set up a do-over vote for Thursday as he tries for a third time to advance the defense bill after winning over two of the hard-right Republicans who were holding out for a commitment from the speaker on spending cuts elsewhere. But the conservative holdouts also want McCarthy to commit to keeping the funding cuts in place longer, for the full year, as budget talks continue with the Senate.“This is not conservative Republicanism; this is stupidity.”During the lengthy dinnertime meeting in the Capitol basement, McCarthy reportedly offered to meet the right-flank holdouts partway, vowing he would fight for a lower overall spending level in the subsequent bills.
Commanding only a slim House majority, McCarthy needs almost every Republican on board to pass any conservative bills over the objections of Democrats. Rep. Annie Kuster, a Democrat from New Hampshire who chairs the New Democratic Coalition, said on Tuesday she was hoping that a coalition of “roughly an equal number” of Republicans and Democrats would emerge to support a continuing resolution.
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