Speaker Kevin McCarthy's biggest critic is also the architect of the House GOP’s newest legislative strategy.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s biggest critic is also the architect of the House GOP’s newest legislative strategy.
“The House has really abandoned the McCarthy CR strategy today and has embraced the Matt Gaetz strategy of single-subject spending bills,” GaetzOn Thursday, five House Republicans voted down the rule to advance the GOP’s Pentagon spending bill — theVoting down a rule used to be a rare event . But McCarthy believed he had the votes yesterday because Reps. Ralph Norman and Ken Buck , who both opposed the same rule on Tuesday, had changed their minds.
Making things worse for McCarthy was the fact that the never-CR Republicans and the no-on-the-rule Republicans are actually slightly different groups . In fact, Gaetz votedBut the rule votes increased McCarthy’s desperation and strengthened his chief antagonist. The premise of the Gaetz plan is to kill what he calls governing by CR. It assumes a government shutdown is inevitable. And instead of using a hard-right CR as the House’s opening move in negotiations with the Senate, the floor debates on the House GOP-crafted appropriations bills will serve that purpose.
Now that his strategy has prevailed, Gaetz said last night that he sees one serious obstacle to keeping it on course and preventing a return to the CR.
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