Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, suggested some Democrats would be open to a '50-50' power-sharing to save McCarty's speakership.
Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, are seen. Omar laid out on Friday what Democrats would require in a deal to save McCarthy’s speakership during an MSNBC interview Friday night.Omar said she has spoken to some of the Democrats who may be more open to striking a bipartisan deal to save McCarthy, but they have indicated they would need a 50-50 power-sharing agreement to reach a deal.
Such an agreement would entail Democrats holding 50 percent of House committees and a shared agreement on legislation brought to a vote, Omar said. "They're not interested in saving a speaker who has made it his mission to take autonomy away from women by banning abortion, who has started the effort to cut social security, who is so pathetic that he's willing to get 80 percent from heat assistance to so many people who rely [on it], especially Minnesotans, knowing that winter is coming," the congresswoman said.
She continued:"This is a man who really doesn't care about his constituents. The only thing he cares about is satisfyingand the crazies in his caucus, and not about his constituents and the American people. I don't think there's going to be a single Democrat, unless this man makes an agreement, that we know we can fulfill, to let us cogovern with him."
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