Lawmakers are expected to vote first on Wednesday to adopt the rule governing the floor process for the vote — a key test vote for McCarthy where Republicans are likely to need some help from Democrats.
Even with votes still ahead and whip operations ongoing, McCarthy’s debt deal, as well as his grasp on his caucus, seem on sturdier ground than they were 24 hours earlier. Several lawmakers from the GOP’s right flank spent much of Tuesday complaining about the deal their speaker struck with the president, raising the specter that the bill could fail to escape the House Rules Committee or that McCarthy could face a snap vote to strip him of the gavel.
McCarthy, for his part, played hardball with his critics as they sought to derail the deal yesterday. When Reps., the two Freedom Caucus members on the Rules Committee, pushed for floor votes on amendments to the bill, he instead worked around them — winning the backing of a third hard-liner on the panel, Rep.And he closed the day with a swaggering pitch to his members: “If you think I failed you, I’m sorry,” he told them at a GOP conference meeting.
Talk of removing McCarthy from the speakership quickly faded in that same GOP conference meeting. Rep., another Freedom Caucus lawmaker, told his conservative colleagues to “cut it out” with their criticism, according to two people in the room., who earlier had called for a vote to strip McCarthy of the gavel, left the meeting and refused to discuss the speaker’s future with reporters.
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