.HayesBrown: The House was briefly shut down thanks to a tantrum from a small group of far-right Republicans. Now they're busy making a government shut down much more likely.
,” as I put it at the time — at least that was a debate over how many more people the government could help. The chaos caucus members want that number to shrink substantially, no matter how many of their constituents it hurts.
Their demands also could grow even further, to the frustration of more pragmatic Republicans. Tellingly, Gaetz emerged from the meeting on Monday insisting that McCarthy live up to a “power-sharing agreement” with the far right that the speaker had promised, a framing McCarthy has rejected.
That so few troublemakers could present so many problems reflects McCarthy’s extremely narrow majority. The rebels don’t even have the full Freedom Caucus standing behind them. Though the Freedom Caucus provided, several prominent members — including Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — are McCarthy allies who cast their votes in favor.
While the intraparty fighting might seem like a good time for schadenfreude for Democrats, it’s set to have serious consequences. McCarthy and Granger’s caving in to demands for spending cuts beyond the debt ceiling deal makes
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