Tag Archives: Kevin McCarthy

The Washington Post reports: A contingent of far-right House Republicans are plotting an attempt to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker as early as next week, a move that would throw the chamber into further disarray in the middle of a potential government shutdown. Some members of the far-right faction of the party are coalescing around nominating a member of …

The Washington Post reports: The U.S. government started notifying federal workers on Thursday that a shutdown appears imminent, as a Republican-led standoff on Capitol Hill forced the Biden administration to embark on the formal, methodical process of preparing much of Washington to come to a halt. The messages acknowledged the growing risk that millions of employees and military service members …

The Messenger reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., denied that his political proxies paid conservative influencers to post negative things about Rep. Matt Gaetz online, but the Florida Republican doesn’t believe him. “I saw a number of MAGA influencers online — DC Draino, Citizen Free Press — were posting these solicitations asking for folks to create a false negative sentiment …

The Hill reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told members of the House GOP conference Wednesday morning that he will not bring the Senate’s bipartisan continuing resolution to the floor for a vote. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told reporters after a closed-door House GOP conference meeting that McCarthy informed lawmakers during the gathering that he will not bring the upper chamber’s …

The Huffington Post reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was one of many people calling for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D) to resign, but it only took two words to get him to change his mind. McCarthy seemed to flip-flop on Tuesday after CNN’s Manu Raju asked him a cagey question: “Do you think that George Santos, who’s been …

Politico reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy has reached a new point in spending negotiations, with only five days until a shutdown deadline: pushing for a meeting with President Joe Biden. While McCarthy and his allies are increasingly projecting confidence they’ll be able to notch at least one minor spending win this week, it won’t do anything to avert a shutdown. “I …

The Washington Post reports: Cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 percent as soaring rents drive a national affordability crisis. Forcing more than 1 million women and children onto the waitlist of a nutritional assistance program for poor mothers with young children. Reducing federal spending on home heating assistance for low-income families by more than 70 percent with energy …

The Hill reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is ramping up the pressure on Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to avoid a government shutdown by moving first on a stopgap funding bill that will pass the Senate this week, a few days before the Sept. 30 deadline. The Senate’s plan is to send the bill to the House and put …

“That would be something I would look strongly at ma’am. If we do away with our duty that we said we were going to do — they’re all talk about this promise that he made with Biden a year ago. “What about the promise that we made to the American public? That we were going to be responsible Americans? We …

Axios reports: House Republicans are gearing up for one last attempt to pass a spate of party-line government spending bills before government funding runs out on Sept. 30. Top GOP lawmakers hope that passing the bills will put them in a stronger negotiating position with the Senate as they try to avert a government shutdown without touching off a right-wing …

The Associated Press reports: The White House on Friday directed federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no viable plan to keep the government funded and avert politically and economically costly disruption of federal services. A federal shutdown after Sept. 30 seems all but certain unless Speaker Kevin McCarthy can …

“I have my doubts right now because I’m seeing—we need leadership, ma’am. We don’t need someone just to say we’ve got 218 votes or whatever that jumps on the train after it leaves the station. “Speaker Pelosi, I don’t agree with her ever, hardly on anything, but she was pretty successful. And the way she did it was she put …

Axios reports: Congress is officially heading home for the weekend after conservative hardliners once again tanked plans to fund the government, forcing House GOP leaders to abandon their latest plan to avert a shutdown on Oct. 1. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has struggled for weeks to find a solution that can garner enough Republican support to pass on the …

NBC News reports: House conservatives on Thursday defeated a procedural vote on a Pentagon funding bill, preventing the legislation from moving forward in the chamber for the second time this week And dealing an embarrassing blow to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Six hardline Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the rule for the Pentagon appropriations bill, which was enough to …

Axios reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) on Thursday said he denied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to deliver a joint address to Congress. Zelensky’s visit comes at a crucial moment for Ukraine, as it seeks to shore up support and secure additional funding for its counteroffensive against Russia. “Zelensky asked for a joint session, we just didn’t have time. …

Politico reports: We spoke to multiple Democratic members and aides last night, and this much they know: There will be a shutdown. Yesterday’s floor meltdown confirmed to them that the only remaining question is how long it will be. The dynamics are simple, in their minds: Any solution will, by definition, involve Democrats, and McCarthy is in no position to …

The Daily Beast reports: Talk about a leak. Some House Republican is likely shuffling around the halls of the U.S. Capitol missing their draft resolution to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, because that’s exactly what was found on a baby-changing table in a bathroom under the House floor on Tuesday. The folded motion was discovered by Matt …

ABC News reports: House GOP leadership pulled a procedural vote on a proposed short-term funding stopgap that has bitterly divided the Republican conference and elicited opposition from hardline conservatives. The House was scheduled to vote at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday on the rule to allow the GOP continuing resolution (CR) proposal to move forward, but an update sent out shortly before …

The Messenger reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Thursday dared members from his own party who have been threatening to oust him to bring a motion to vacate to the House floor. According to a source in the room during a House Republican Conference meeting Thursday morning, the speaker said he’s not scared of the motion, which — if …

“I am the most investigated man in the entire Congress. And right there you saw Kevin McCarthy lying like a dead dog, because I have never asked him to interfere in any ethics matter. “That is an abject lie from a sad and pathetic man who lies to hold on to power. He lied to get power in January when …