Under pressure from Biden and a rapidly approaching debt limit deadline, Republicans are struggling to unite behind a fiscal blueprint. Instead of owning up to failure, McCarthy appears to be looking for a scapegoat.
There’s a reason McCarthy is singling out Reps. Jodey Arrington and Steve Scalise, and it’s about more than just disagreements over policy or strategy. | Scott Applewhite/AP PhotoSoon after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy cliched the speakership, some of his allies began to fret: How the hell was he going to live up to all the promises he’d made to conservatives to win their support?
There’s a reason McCarthy is singling out Arrington and Scalise, and it’s about more than just disagreements over policy or strategy. People close to McCarthy tell us that he perceives both men as disloyal — and he’s known to hold a grudge. Something similar happened when Arrington told reporters that Republicans were finalizing a debt ceiling offer of sorts, what he dubbed afor Biden. “I don’t know what he’s talking about,” McCarthy shot back when asked about Arrington’s comments.
But Arrington’s defenders say it’s unfair for McCarthy to blame him. They note that it’s odd for the speaker to call him “incompetent” despite repeatedly asking him to give presentations on fiscal matters to Republicans at both the House GOP leadership retreat earlier this year and the full GOP conference retreat in Orlando a few days ago.
Republicans we spoke to found McCarthy’s lack of pushback on the Times story to be quite conspicuous. McCarthy, they note, rarely speaks ill of his members in meetings, and if he does, it rarely leaks. His paltry response did not go unnoticed.
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