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With his right flank in open revolt and keeping a stranglehold on the House floor, Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces two unappealing choices for how to govern.With his right flank in open revolt and keeping a stranglehold on the House floor, Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces two unappealing choices for how to govern.
He can cater to the demands of hard-right members of his conference, pushing through bills that will face a bipartisan legislative buzz saw in the Senate. Or he can steer around them on crucial issues, teaming up with Democrats to pass spending bills and other vital measures, and contend with constant threats to his job from his own party — if not outright removal.He can cater to the demands of hard-right members of his conference, pushing through bills that will face a bipartisan legislative buzz saw in the Senate. Or he can steer around them on crucial issues, teaming up with Democrats to pass spending bills and other vital measures, and contend with constant threats to his job from his own party — if not outright removal.
The surprise attack on the G.O.P. leadership this week by nearly a dozen extreme right Republicans shut down the House with no resolution in sight, sidelining the party’s political messaging bill on gas stoves that was never going to become law. But it also created a paralyzing political quandary for Mr. McCarthy that foreshadows much bigger problems.The surprise attack on the G.O.P. leadership this week by nearly a dozen extreme right Republicans shut down the House with no resolution in sight, sidelining the party’s political messaging bill on gas stoves that was never going to become law. But it also created a paralyzing political quandary for Mr. McCarthy that foreshadows much bigger problems.
The right-wing faction’s tool of choice for the rebellion — opposing a routine procedural measure known as a rule that is normally a strict party-line vote — was a reminder that, in a closely divided House, the group could easily wreak havoc with the annual spending bills that are beginning to take shape now that the debt limit crisis is over.The right-wing faction’s tool of choice for the rebellion — opposing a routine procedural measure known as a rule that is normally a strict party-line vote — was a reminder that, in a closely divided House, the group could easily wreak havoc with the annual spending bills that are beginning to take shape now that the debt limit crisis is over.
Members of both parties are worried that such tactics could lead to a stalemate over those bills, prompting a government shutdown this fall and an automatic cut in spending next year that they fear would significantly undermine Ukraine in its conflict with Russia and hurt other federal programs as well.
“I’ve got serious concerns as we go into the appropriations process about how antics like this taking down a rule can impact the ability for us to do our basic job of funding the government,” said Representative Steve Womack of Arkansas, a senior Republican member of the Appropriations Committee. “It was already going to be a pretty heavy lift, but it is a lift that is going to be made heavier if this is what we are going to be facing.”