House Republican infighting over the budget deal House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) cobbled together with President Joe Biden has created a crisis for his speakership and some GOP insiders are claiming the clock is ticking on how long he'll keep the speaker's gavel.
According to a report from the Daily Beast, recalcitrant Republicans are furious with McCarthy and his enemies within the caucus see an opportunity to make a motion to "vacate the chair" just months after it took him 15 ballots to be elected the leadership spot.
As the Beast's Ursula Perano and Sam Brodey wrote, "When Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) passed a debt ceiling deal out of the House last week, he reveled in the demonstration of his control over his chaotic party and crowed that he’d proven his legions of doubters wrong. It only took a few days for him to come crashing down to earth—thanks to the very crew of conservative rebels who had made his path to the speakership so excruciating to begin with."
According to McCarthy, complaints about this budget deal are misguided and, without naming names, he complained his detractors refuse to clarify what exactly they want.
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"This is the difficulty: Some of these members, they don’t know what to ask for. There is numerous different things they’re frustrated about… Some people want their certain bills up at a certain time. We're just going to work through the agenda and get everything done," he told reporters.
With rebellious members holding up House activity, one GOP aide claimed the Speaker has good reason to worry about his future.
“It’s a good reminder that Kevin McCarthy’s speakership is essentially on borrowed time. Any bipartisan outcome in the House puts him in peril. It’s unclear how many compromises he can survive," they stated.
Another aide put blame back on McCarthy, telling the Beast, "Backroom deals that no one bothered to put into writing have led us to this impasse, members don’t like finger-pointing, they want the speaker to lead.”
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