House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's accommodating leadership style and narrow majority — along with the concessions he made to become speaker — have empowered rank-and-file lawmakers to try to exert new influence.
for voting to raise the debt ceiling, on Tuesday announced plans to introduce more than 500 pieces of legislation totaling around $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years.The Freedom Caucus may go further still: The bills "don't represent the entirety of all the cuts that need to occur," Rep. Chip Roy told Axios. "But those are upfront cuts that we could do almost immediately."
Johnson said his group has taken a more behind-the-scenes approach in trying to shape the budget, meeting with GOP leadership “on an almost daily basis” for the last two months.McCarthy "obviously can't pass anything without 218 votes," Hern said, adding that the speaker's job is to balance the equities within the conference to craft a GOP budget everyone can coalesce around.
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