Republican leaders’ recent announcements bear all the insignia of concessions to the Freedom Caucus.
control of one-half of one branch of government—were nowhere near enough for a small band of Republican hardliners, however. While these hardliners, mostly members of the House Freedom Caucus, didn’t try to oust McCarthy from his speakership over the deal, they didThe hardliners ended their blockade earlier this week after days of conferring with the party’s leaders.
that read as though written under duress: House Republican appropriators would write their spending bills to lower fiscal year 2022 levels, not the levels set under the debt limit deal. That would amount to an extra $130 billion in cutsIt bears all the insignia of a concession to the Freedom Caucus: obvious shortsightedness that will work against its cited policy goals, but will allow them to continue to complain and fundraise off of the idea that McCarthy sold them out.
Even if they can pass through the lower chamber, though, these bills wouldn’t be taken seriously in any negotiation with the Senate, which is writing spending bills to the levels set in the debt ceiling deal of—again—
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