Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed the first test of his House leadership as Republicans backed a new set of rules for how the chamber operates, including one that will make it easier for dissidents to challenge him. Know more:
Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed the first test of his House leadership as Republicans backed a new set of rules for how the chamber operates, including one that will make it easier for dissidents to challenge him.
McCarthy is working with a slim 222-212 Republican majority, meaning he can afford no more than four Republican defections on any party-line vote. The rules package contains a provision that gives greater power to an ultraconservative GOP faction that wants a confrontation with Democrats that could lead to a market-rattling standoff later this year over the nation’s debt ceiling and legislation keeping the government running.
The new rule gives McCarthy very little leeway to negotiate any compromises on legislation with the Democratic-controlled Senate without risking a challenge to his authority. There is a procedure available to House Democrats to try to force a debt ceiling vote, however. They can file a discharge petition, and if that gets more than 218 signatures, including from moderate members of the GOP, then a bill can be brought to the floor over the speaker’s objections. But that move would require advanced planning given built-in delays in the procedure and could provoke primary challenges to any Republicans who go along.
Another rule, known as “cut-go,” would require any new spending to be offset by cuts elsewhere in the budget. Deficit-increasing tax cuts are exempt from the new rule.
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