Come O)N!….
The Senate has a Democratic Majority….
The President IS a Democrat….
It don’t matter what McCarthy promised to get the Speaker job…..
Things end up a certain way……
The votes for passage are probably there with House Democearts and a few Republicans that CANNOT vote against the deal…..
Replace McCarthy?
Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) on Tuesday became the first Republican to publicly support ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the debt ceiling deal he struck with President Biden as conservative criticism of the agreement ramps up.
At a House Freedom Caucus press conference on Tuesday, Bishop was the sole Republican to raise his hand signifying he would support a motion to oust McCarthy over the bill….
A Rand Paul Replacement Deal?
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who says he will not vote for the debt limit deal struck over the weekend by President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), is proposing that Congress instead increase the debt ceiling by only $500 billion and return to the negotiating table in a few months to work out additional spending reforms.
Paul’s proposal of a “conservative alternative” to the Biden-McCarthy deal comes amid a broader backlash against the agreement from conservatives in the Senate and House….
Complaints about promises McCarthy made that he can’t keep to Rightwingnut Republican’s..
The powerful House Rules Committee will take up the bipartisan debt deal on Tuesday afternoon, requiring a simple majority of at least seven votes on the panel to come to the floor. But some conservatives, including Rep. Chip Roy(R-Texas), a committee member, are signaling they may use their power on that panel to block the debt plan from receiving a full House vote.
And more opposition could come Tuesday afternoon, when members of the Freedom Caucus are slated to hold a press conference to express their contempt for the negotiated deal.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), another conservative Rules member, told POLITICO on Tuesday that he’d like to consider amendments to the bill during the afternoon panel meeting, but he plans to use his position to block the bill from coming to the floor…..
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McCarthy predicted to reporters that the bill would be “fine,” when asked over the weekend about a potential snag in the Rules Committee. And he sought to underscore that those who do oppose the bill are a small minority of his overall House GOP conference: “This is a good, strong bill that a majority of Republicans will vote for.”