The impending showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding represents a significant leadership test for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The road ahead is rocky as the speaker faces tough vote math, major challenges and the potential threat of a conservative revolt against his speakership.
Turns out constantly capitulating to the far right doesn't earn you any loyalty from them -- who'd have guessed? /s
And give up all their supposed values doing so. Can't be the "law and order" party while supporting protecting criminals from consequences; cops were killed as a result of their failed insurrection.
It's been amazing watching them abandon free trade, national security, and capitalist healthcare from their list of values all based around opposition to 'the current thing'.
Isn't it weird how the right did that Qanon thing, pretending to be worried about "groomers", and here we are with Groomer Gaetz making threats and demands of their so-called "Speaker".
Doesn't matter to a certain extent. They voted how many hundreds of times to get rid of the ACA? Republicans (especially the far right) don't give a shit about actually succeeding - they just want to go home to their districts and show they "stood up" to the anti-Trump Rinos.
I'm just happy that literally every other problem facing Americans have been solved - otherwise this would be a really bad waste of time! /s
Don't you know that all of the real problems facing the country are caused by democrats, illegal aliens, rainbows, drag queens, abortion, books, and wokeness. Attacking the windmills to slay these bogeyman is how you fix everything. /s
The impending showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding represents a significant leadership test for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The road ahead is rocky as the speaker faces tough vote math, major challenges and the potential threat of a conservative revolt against his speakership.
House Republicans control only a narrow majority, a dynamic that has left McCarthy with little room to maneuver and has given hardline conservatives outsized influence to exert pressure over the speaker.
On Tuesday, Gaetz outlined a series of demands, including calling for passage of individual spending bills and not a short-term stopgap measure to fund the government, as he threatened a push to remove the speaker.
In practical terms, a motion to vacate the chair takes the form of a resolution to remove the speaker by declaring the speakership to be vacant.
If a member introduces a resolution, but does not announce it from the floor, that would not force a vote or have any immediate impact – making it more of a symbolic threat or warning shot to the speaker.
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