McConnell sees stopping a shutdown as McCarthy's problem, not his
By Hayes Brown
Like millions of Americans, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., probably wishes he were still on summer vacation. Now that the House is back from its August recess, the speaker’s first order of business is keeping the government from shutting down when the fiscal year ends on Oct. 1. Also on the agenda are a few other critical pieces of legislation that need to be on President Joe Biden’s desk by the end of the month.
But McCarthy is facing pressure from his right flank that will make it difficult to get anything done before that deadline. While it’s conceivable that he could make a deal that satisfies both his caucus and the Democrat-controlled Senate, he’ll have almost no margin of error before the far-right pounces — and he’ll have to balance those interests without much, if any, support from Senate Republicans.
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