Kevin McCarthy seems to have been able to tamp down the current Freedom Caucus rebellion, but not before his right-wing mutineers made their point.
seems to have been able to tamp down the Freedom Caucus rebellion that shut down the House floor for days. But not before his right-wing mutineers made their point:Monday, after what he described as “productive” talks with McCarthy about the concessions he made in order to finally get far-right conservatives behind his speakership bid earlier this year. “And if there’s not a renegotiated power-sharing agreement, then perhaps we’ll be back here next week.
“The power sharing agreement that we entered into in January with Speaker McCarthy must be renegotiated,” Gaetz told reporters. “He understood that we understood that.”, when Gaetz and several other right-wing extremists blocked a procedural vote on a bill they likely supported , in protest of the debt deal McCarthy cut with President.
It was the first failed rule vote in the House in more than 20 years, and it put McCarthy in the embarrassing position of having to cancel votes for the remainder of last week and send members home. Helast week that he felt "blindsided,” noting that there was “a little chaos going on” within his conference.
The speaker seems to have gotten the House in order — for now — by agreeing to “sit down and talk more of the process” with his far-right detractors, whom he tried to placate by expressing regret for agreeing to the debt deal, according to CNN’s
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