The far-right House Freedom Caucus has been a thorn in Kevin McCarthy's side. The faction's new ransom note to prevent a shutdown makes matters worse.
The ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus is demanding a series of conservative policy changes in exchange for giving its support to any short-term funding measure designed to avert a government shutdown on Sept. 30. The Republican rebels insist that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who floated the idea of a stopgap bill last week, impose conditions that the Democratic-led Senate and President Joe Biden are extremely unlikely to accept.
Nevertheless, as far as the right-wing contingent is concerned, unless their demands are addressed, they’ll refuse to consider supporting a temporary spending bill championed by their own party’s leaders. . When GOP leaders, facing limited choices, largely ignored the contingent’s demands, this enraged the faction and left them looking for another opportunity to exert influence.None of this is good news for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. If the California Republican takes the Freedom Caucus’ demands seriously, it’ll divide his conference and result in a bill that can’t pass the Democratic-Senate. A GOP-imposed shutdown would be effectively inevitable.
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