Is Kevin McCarthy a lame-duck speaker already?
More than a dozen GOP holdouts extracted concessions from McCarthy over days of negotiating that undercut the incoming speaker’s power, from limiting his ability to dole out plum committee posts to increasing the chances of future showdowns over spending that he will have little ability to control.Managing a slim, four-seat majority was already set to be a challenging task for McCarthy under the rules proposal he wanted.
“I think that the rules and personnel changes to the House that we've been talking about will do a lot to democratize power to the membership and will allow us a far stronger position as a House," Rep. Matt Gaetz told CNN on Friday, adding that McCarthy has put himself in a “straitjacket” to win the gavel.
After resisting for weeks a demand to bring back the motion to vacate, which allows any member to call for a vote of no confidence in the speaker, McCarthy agreed to reinstate the rule with a threshold of just one lawmaker rather than the five-member threshold he had offered earlier in the negotiating process.
Raising the national debt limit could become far more contentious in the future under McCarthy’s deal, as holdouts demanded the right to decline to support raising the debt ceiling without accompanying spending cuts.On spending, McCarthy made a largely symbolic promise to support a budget process that would balance the federal books over the next decade.
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