Boxed in by conservatives as a shutdown looms, the embattled speaker is punching back.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s default approach to his critics on the right has been appeasement, giving them pretty much everything they want and more. But lately, he’s been going after his detractors. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesAfter months tiptoeing around the conservatives who have made his speakership a constant high-wire act, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears to be fed up — and ready to fight.
The embattled speaker could spark a showdown in the coming days under a plan his leadership team discussed yesterday, according to people familiar with the talks.
That would set McCarthy & Co. up to blame those holdouts for undercutting the party’s negotiating hand with Democrats, ultimately leading to the Senate jamming the House with a shutdown-averting stopgap without“I want votes on this,” McCarthy told members in a private leadership meeting last night, according to a person present who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Others in the room agreed that any holdouts needed to be put on record.
It started last week when he dared conservatives to try to oust him from the speakership in a curse-laden private House meeting. It continued over the weekendwhere he vowed to hold a vote on a stalled Pentagon funding bill and “show the American public who’s for the Department of Defense, who’s for funding our military, who’s for giving them a pay raise and taking the wokism out.”
He’s also engaging in personal terms with some of his persistent critics, such as mocking the constant threats posted online by Rep. Matt Gaetz . “Oh my god, someone tweeted about me?” McCarthy snickered to reporters yesterday before criticizing another antagonist, Rep. Victoria Spartz .
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