Analysis: McCarthy and conservative House GOP members ditch vows to run transparent House to hammer out trillions of dollars in spending cuts
Not a single committee held a hearing on a bill that would slash trillions of dollars from federal agency budgets and revoke clean climate tax credits. Not one committee held the traditional legislative markup to consider amendments and further debate on the measure. Not one Democrat had input into the measure.
It’s an open question whether this is a one-off moment, mandated by the pressing timeline of early to mid-June to avoid a possible default on the more than $31 trillion national debt. Or, this process may end up serving as a gateway drug toward abandoning other procedural demands for transparency. “I don’t have any problems going through regular order, but the key here is the conference as a whole is working as intensively on this as anything I’ve ever seen. I think that’s a great process,” Bishop told The Washington Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell on Thursday.Heading into last fall’s midterm elections, McCarthy blasted Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s powerful reign, when it seemed every big decision got made around the California Democrat’s conference table.
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