House Cancels Votes Amid GOP Revolt Against Kevin McCarthy
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GOP lawmakers are standing up to McCarthy after the debt ceiling deal.
This forced House leaders to cancel planned votes this week.
House leaders canceled planned votes for the rest of the week amid a revolt by conservative members that brought any votes on the House floor to a halt.
“What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna come back on Monday, work through it and be back working for the American public,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday evening.
He said his goal is “to try to work this out by the end of the night.”
A group of 11 conservatives sunk a procedural rule vote Tuesday in a stunning rebuke to GOP leadership, fueled by anger over the debt limit bill negotiated by McCarthy and President Biden, who signed it into law over the weekend.
McCarthy is trying to shift the blame to Steve Scalise according to a report from CNN.
Privately, allies of Speaker Kevin McCarthy have directed their frustration at his top deputy, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, for Tuesday’s surprise floor defeat when a band of Republicans tanked a procedural vote on a GOP messaging bill – a move that has halted all action in the House and showed the limits of the speaker’s power in his narrow majority.
McCarthy’s allies say there’s a reason for the current standoff: Scalise mishandled a demand by a conservative hardliner, Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, for a vote on a bill to loosen a gun regulation. And they thought Scalise should have just apologized to Clyde before it grew into a bigger problem with more members coming forward with their own list of demands and grievances.
But Scalise’s allies believe it falls on McCarthy, whose deal-cutting with President Joe Biden to suspend the debt limit prompted accusations from the far-right that he violated the terms of his January agreement to become speaker. Scalise did not play a role in either of those deals.
When asked McCarthy said he is not worried about losing the speakership.
However, McCarthy said he wasn’t afraid of losing his leadership post.
“I’m not worried about the rule,” he said. I’m not [worried] about the speakership or anything else. If you’re worried about those things, you’re never going to govern.”
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