Electing the U.S. House speaker may have been the easy part. Next up, Republican lawmakers will try to pass their first bill — legislation to cut funding that is supposed to bolster the Internal Revenue Service.
But first McCarthy, backed by former President Donald Trump, needs to show the Republican majority can keep up with basics of governing.
Central to the package is the provision the conservative Freedom Caucus wanted that reinstates a longstanding rule that allows any one lawmaker make a motion to “vacate the chair” — a vote to oust the speaker. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi had done away with the rule when Democrats took charge in 2019 because conservatives had held it over past Republican speakers as a threat.But that’s not the only change.
“A little temporary conflict is necessary in this town in order to stop this town from rolling over the American people,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said over the weekend on CNN. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., focused his criticism on the GOP’s so-called Holman Rule, which would allow Congress to rescind the pay of individual federal employees: “This is no way to govern.”
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