Kevin McCarthy will begin working to pass the first of the GOP’s spending bills, ahead of an anticipated September budget fight with Democrats.
, with a tenuous grip on his conference, will begin working to try to pass the first of the party’s spending bills, ahead of an anticipated September budget fight with Democrats. But the hardline right—which he’s coddled in an effort to stay in their good graces—is once again threatening to exploit the situation for their own gain, indicating that they’ll seek to force through extreme wishlist items via the appropriations process.
“If it takes a rider on an appropriation bill or language in an appropriation bill to stop the federal funding for transgender therapy for minors,” as right-wing RepresentativeIt’s unclear what, exactly, the hardliners will be able to extract from McCarthy, let alone the Democratically-controlled Senate. But in once again asserting themselves, the right flank of the House GOP could continue to cause headaches for the speaker—and could put the country at risk of a government shutdown this fall.
, and has only seemed to grow more insubordinate to McCarthy since his debt ceiling deal with President. The speaker has mostly managed to hold his fractured caucus together—but in no small part by indulging the extremists, as seen earlier this month when he allowed the Freedom Caucus toin amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act.
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