Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces a political standoff when the House resumes this week. He needs to steer the House to fund the government and avoid a government shutdown.
McCarthy is going to “have his hands full trying to figure out how to navigate and execute,” he said., but the stakes are ever higher, with Republicans powered by an increasingly hard-right faction that is refusing to allow business as usual in Washington.
“He’s being squeezed,” Brad Woodhouse, a veteran Democratic operative, said of McCarthy. Woodhouse is now a senior adviser to the Congressional Integrity Project, which is preparing to criticize Republicans over the Biden impeachment.But Trump’s allies among House Republicans are working furiously to unearth any links between Biden and his son’s business as they portray
If not, they say they will oppose a temporary measure, called a continuing resolution, or CR, to keep government running. Signaling the hard road ahead, Trump-ally Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., mockingly reposted one of McCarthy’s recent videos welcoming tourists at the Capitol. McCarthy has signaled an impeachment inquiry is coming. But there is “no date circled on the calendar,” said a person familiar with his thinking and granted anonymity to discuss it.