Secret Doc Contains McCarthy’s Deal With MAGA Reps

Axios reports:

A private document that only some House Republicans have seen and others refuse to talk about could play an outsized role in the governance of the chamber over the next two years.

The document contains concessions — not included in the rules package passed on Monday night — that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made to rebellious Freedom Caucus members to secure the speaker’s gavel.

Those members have threatened to kill McCarthy’s speakership as swiftly as they acquiesced to it if he reneges on their handshake agreements. The existence of a “secret three-page addendum” containing “the most controversial concessions” that McCarthy was confirmed to Axios by multiple GOP aides and members.

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