Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Newsmax on Tuesday the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was 'incredibly painful' and said McCarthy's Republican opponents were asking him to do things in nine months that had not been accomplished in decades.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Newsmax on Tuesday the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was "incredibly painful" and said McCarthy's Republican opponents were asking him to do things in nine months that had not been accomplished in decades.
"We've got this rapidly expanding debt, rapidly increasing problems on the border," Lankford told "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "All these things that have not been done, and my concern is that a group of folks in the House wanted to say it all has to get solved right now. According to the Pew Research Center, Congress has passed all of its appropriation bills on time just four times since the 1974 Congressional Budget Act was passed: in 1977, 1989, 1995, and 1997. Lankford, who served four years in the House from 2011 to 2015, said it was unrealistic for McCarthy's Republican detractors to expect him to get that accomplished in his first nine months as speaker.
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