Kevin McCarthy agreed to add three far-right conservatives to the Rules Committee in order to win enough votes to become House speaker. Now he will learn if that was too high a price.
That could leave Massie as the swing vote on the Rules Committee: Hypothetically, four Democrats plus Norman and Roy would vote no, with McCarthy’s six staunch allies voting yes.“Need to see text,” Massie wrote via text message Sunday.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy described his negotiating process for the debt ceiling agreement on May 28. The text of this proposal is not yet available, but it appears that if Congress does not finish its work on those bills, then the entire federal government would continue to function on the previous year’s allotment, minus a 1 percent cut.
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