House Republican leaders are running out of options after conservative hardliners sunk a Pentagon bill from advancing on Thursday and the fate of a GOP effort to keep the government funded remains uncertain.
The procedural vote’s failure marks yet another blow to Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he faces a major leadership test and threats over his ouster and Congress inches ever closer to a potential shutdown at the end of next week. The defense funding bill typically garners widespread bipartisan support, a sign of how even usually uncontroversial issues have become mired down in Republican infighting.
McCarthy’s thin margin in the chamber means that in most votes he can only lose four members without any support from Democrats – and absences can raise and lower the majority threshold. Late Wednesday evening, McCarthy briefed his conference behind closed doors on a new plan to keep the government open – paired with deeper spending cuts and new border security measures – in an attempt to win over wary members on his right flank.
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Speaker McCarthy faces an almost impossible task trying to unite House GOP and fund the governmentSpeaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to accomplish what at times seems impossible.
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