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Democrats' decision to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker could haunt them in the fight over government spending as they negotiate with a successor who has fresh political capital.
He promised to extract spending cuts from Democrats, who control the White House and Senate, in a fight to keep the government open past Sept. 30, but the conservatives demanding those cuts were so suspect of his leadership that even a hard-right funding extension failed to attract the necessary support.
The same intransigence that denied McCarthy leverage in one fight would likely have persisted to the next. Johnson's election changes that. The Freedom Caucus, for now, does not feel the need to hold his feet to the fire the way it did for McCarthy, meaning Johnson will be given latitude in coming fights. That affords him control of his conference and a stronger position at the negotiating table with Democrats.
If he can do so — a provision on abortion pills is holding up the food and agriculture bill — he will have an opening offer to present to Democrats, further strengthening his hand. Meanwhile, the Senate has yet to pass a single appropriations bill. Johnson, meanwhile, wants conditions on that aid and will pursue border policy changes and spending cuts to greenlight the funding. An extension that butts up against the Christmas recess is a nonstarter.
Others may simply be politically necessary. While both parties overwhelmingly support aid to Ukraine, enough Republicans in both chambers want more oversight that the White House will have to accommodate. The same can be said of Johnson's plan to consider Ukraine and Israel aid separately.
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