.SpeakerMcCarthy's debt ceiling deal could unintentionally hand major wins to Democrats seeking reelection in 2024 by allowing the party to reclaim control of the lower chamber, according to some analysts.
The House easily passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act late last month in a 314-117 vote, allowing lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling through 2025 and narrowly avoid a default on the country’s debts. The bill was a bipartisan compromise crafted by McCarthy and the White House after weeks of grueling negotiations, but the speaker touted the deal as a major win for the GOP.Several Republicans, on the other hand, disagreed.
“Front-line Democrats running for reelection next year will now be able to say that they voted for the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act that will cut $2.1 trillion in spending over the next six years,” states a memo from Hart Research Associates, a Democratic-aligned polling group. “If Republicans were planning on using the issue of federal spending as a sword against Democrats next year, they now have conspired to give Democrats a shield with which to combat those attacks.
“Speaker McCarthy forced his most vulnerable members to walk the plank in voting for this extreme MAGA legislation, and then got almost none of it enacted into law,” the memo reads. “The bottom line: Republicans in Biden districts should expect to hear early and often about their reckless and meanspirited vote for massive domestic cuts and what those cuts would mean for American families. This was a bad vote, and Republicans will pay a price for it.
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