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Last Update: May 31, 2023, 12:18 PM IST
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The new loan deal could lead to McCarthy being removed as US House Speaker as the House Freedom Caucus strongly opposes the deal. (Image: Reuters)
Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus feel McCarthy violated promises he made to gain their support to become US House Speaker and are unhappy.
When the debt ceiling deal got the go-ahead from the House Rules Committee as they voted 7-6 to advance it to the full House on Tuesday, it appeared that both US President Joe Biden and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were far from thinking it. Maybe they both won something after weeks of tense negotiations.
For Biden, it may come as a relief ahead of the US election season but for McCarthy it could mean trouble. a report by Mountain Said North Carolina House Representative Dan Bishop became the first Republican to publicly support the removal of Kevin McCarthy.
It is not just Bishop who is calling for her removal from the role of US House Speaker. The House Freedom Caucus, a group of which he is a member, has already said Republicans should vote en masse against the deal.
The House Freedom Caucus finds the debt limit deal does not meet their standards. They wanted more spending cuts despite the package, potentially reducing the deficit by $1.5 trillion over a decade.
“This deal fails, utterly fails, and that is why these members and others will absolutely oppose this deal,” said Rep. Scott Perry, Pennsylvania Republican, chairman of the Freedom Caucus, and others outside the Capitol. people said. Will do everything in our power to stop it,” he added.
Texas Republican Chip Roy also said: “There’s going to be a reckoning”.
These three aforementioned Republican leaders were among the 20 House Republicans who in January voted to endorse McCarthy for speaker, resulting in a historic 15-ballot speaker election. Mountain said in a report.
There were 12 of those 20 Republicans who rejected the 2020 election results.
“Let me put it this way. I think this bill really indicates why I worry about him being speaker,” Biggs said. Mountain,
Of these 20, Matt Gaetz also spoke out against McCarthy and said the changes McCarthy made with Biden were cosmetic in nature. “If a majority of Republicans are against a piece of legislation and you use Democrats to pass it, it would immediately be a black letter violation of the deal we made with McCarthy to allow his ascent to the speakership.” Did,” Getz said. newsmax,
He then added that this was likely to trigger “an immediate motion to vacate”.
Vacancy motions, a rarely employed measure, have so far not resulted in the removal of any Speaker, although former Representative Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina) famously called former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Such motion was filed against ) in 2015, which although defeated in the House Rules Committee, is believed to have played a role in Boehner’s subsequent resignation from office.
