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Speaker Kevin McCarthy sent his House members home for the week without a clear plan to avoid a looming government shutdown after hardliners in the Republican conference once again scuttled his spending plans, delivering an embarrassing floor defeat for GOP leadership for the second time this week.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy sent his House members home for the week without a clear plan to avoid a looming government shutdown after hardliners in the Republican conference once again scuttled his spending plans, delivering an embarrassing floor defeat for GOP leadership for the second time this week.

The Republican leader slammed his far-right flank for wanting to “burn the place down,” after conservatives dramatically bucked McCarthy and GOP leadership on a procedural vote over a Pentagon funding bill, throwing the House into total paralysis. And now, members are not set to return to session until Tuesday as the possibility of a shutdown at the end of next week appears ever more likely.

“It’s frustrating in the sense that I don’t understand why anybody votes against bringing the idea and having the debate,” McCarthy told reporters.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    53·
    1 year ago

    All he has to do is work with the Democrats. That’s it. He’s just not going to do it because he is clawing on to his speakership for dear life.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 year ago

      And even there, he could hold onto the speakership by working with Democrats. If he throws the Democrats a few bones in exchange for them voting to keep McCarthy in any speakership vote, then the power of the Freedom Caucus would be blunted.

      But silly me, the obvious path forward is really to keep doing the same thing and hope that the Freedom Caucus will become reasonable. Surely, that will work perfectly, right?

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        141·
        1 year ago

        Mmm… he knows that everyone on the other side of the aisle fucking hates him.

        That said, considering how often and consistently Republicans have outright lied to their colleagues and pulled bait-and-switch bullshit, maybe it’s time to just say they’ll back him for speaker after the vote, and then just… vote for Jeffries instead.

        • TechyDad@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Of course, it doesn’t help that McCarthy pushed for a Biden impeachment on the grounds of “the Freedom Caucus wants this even though there’s zero evidence” only for the Freedom Caucus to decide that wasn’t enough and they wanted more.

          The Freedom Caucus are acting like spoiled kids. “I got you the new toy you wanted so now you’ll act nice to mommy and daddy, right?” “NO! I now want these two other toys! Get me them NOW!”

      • Nougat@kbin.social
        71·
        1 year ago

        Nah, Dems should vote their conscience and stand back and let the Republicans figure it out. The Republican party has openly and consistently obstructed everything Democrats have tried to do for the last 20 years at least, including assisting with trying to throw the 2020 Presidential election. Democrats don’t have to stoop to that level, but they also damned sure aren’t obliged to rescue the Republican majority in the House when one part of it is obstructing the other part.