The speaker abruptly pulled a vote on his stopgap funding agreement, suggesting that McCarthy is happy to let House extremists bring the government to a grinding halt.
to federal workers, government operations, and potentially the economy at large. McCarthy has cast the Freedom Caucus holdouts as the villains of this story—and deservedly so. But the dysfunction also speaks to his own poor leadership and political cravenness., and the like—pulled this same crap a few months ago, as they sought to leverage a potential debt default to enact a far-right wish list.
“The White House and Democrats negotiated in good faith with Speaker McCarthy, shook hands, and reached a deal this summer to prevent the very quagmire in which America now finds itself,” as a House DemocratPolitico. “The only thing Democrats should be more vocal about is our disgust that the deal was so brazenly breached.”
If there’s a note of humor in all this, it’s that he may lose the gavel either way. Earlier this week, McCarthy called on his holdouts to adopt a more politically realistic approach to negotiations: “If you’re not willing to pass appropriations bills, and you’re not willing to pass a continuing resolution…and you don’t want an omnibus,” he, “I don’t quite know what you want.
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