Speaker Kevin McCarthy is hurtling toward one of the most consequential weeks of the new House Republican majority.
for McCarthy, who is trying to entice President Joe Biden to the negotiating table. The nation is teetering toward a debt default crisis, needing to lift the borrowing cap to keep fully paying the bills in a matter of weeks.
At the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the legislative package from the Republicans is “cruel,” and would hit Americans with steep and painful program cuts. “We will hold a vote this week, and we will pass it,” McCarthy vowed in a Sunday interview on Fox News. The GOP whip team under Emmer, R-Minn., is heavily counting the votes. With the House not returning to work until late Tuesday evening, the floor action is not expected until Wednesday at the earliest.
“Your choice is you vote for this to move this forward and do what’s in the best interest of the country or you give Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer a blank check,” Emmer said, making his pitch to the holdouts. Pointedly the Republican package would undo many of Biden's signature proposals for fighting climate in last year's Inflation Reduction Act, and instead put in place the Republicans' own sweeping proposal to boost oil and gas drilling and ease permitting regulations.
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