Vowing “no security, no funding,” Freedom Caucus members are holding up the budget appropriations and government funding process in the name of – among other causes – national security. Without Congressional action, the federal government faces a shutdown at the end of the month. The overriding concern in January, when Stefanik – who is not a member of the Freedom Caucus – was the first to stand up on the floor and officially nominate McCarthy, was that capitulating to ultraconservative members during the leadership voting process would only lead to continued concessions and throw our government into chaos.
McCarthy has had to look constantly over his shoulder, forever at the whims of the Republican right flank. McCarthy’s agreement to such tenuous terms reflects the perilous position he finds himself in as Speaker of a party with such a slim House majority.
While McCarthy stopped short of giving up a limb to secure the post, members of the party’s Freedom Caucus twisted McCarthy’s arm plenty, perhaps most consequentially forcing an arrangement in which a single House member can call for a snap vote to remove McCarthy from the speakership. Calling McCarthy “a proud conservative with a tireless work ethic,” Stefanik, the upstate New York Congresswoman who serves as the House Republican Conference chair, said she was honored to nominate the California Republican “to lead America’s new Republican majority.”Īfter a protracted 15 rounds of voting, McCarthy finally received the speakership.
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