House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his top deputy in Republican leadership, Steve Scalise, are volleying blame as the right flank of the conference lashes out at its leadership over the debt deal.
podcast to claim that Scalise threatened to block Clyde’s bill to rollback a Biden administration gun control measure if Clyde did not support the debt deal . In turn, the 11 hardliners decided to send a message to Republican leadership: “We won’t be retaliated against, we won’t see our colleagues retaliated against and we won’t continue to play failure theater,” Gaetz said.
The rebellion not only revealed the fissures between Republican leaders and the party’s hard-right flank, but also bitterness between McCarthy and Scalise. During, McCarthy put the blame on the Majority Leader, noting that he is responsible for what happens on the House floor. “Yesterday was started on something else,” McCarthy said. “It was a conversation that the Majority Leader had with [Clyde] and I think it was a miscalculation or misinterpretation of what one said to another.
Scalise fired off his own rebuke. “I talked to a number of the members as the vote was ending yesterday on the floor, and you know, clearly there was some anger expressed about the debt ceiling deal and even some perceived broken promises going back to the speaker’s race in January,” Scalise told reporters Wednesday. “Other things came up too.”Gaetz reiterated that the frustrations primarily lie with McCarthy—not Scalise, who played a minimal role in the debt deal talks with the White House.
As for Democrats, any gaps in unity among House Republicans are seen as opportunities. On Tuesday following the failed procedural vote, former Speaker
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