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He did. The Budget was negotiated with President Biden back in June / July. What's happened is that he can't get the Freedom Caucus to vote for what he negotiated. It's ridiculous.
He doesn't need their votes. He needs the Democrats and a handful of Republicans.
True, except the Freedom Caucus is threatening to hold a vote to remove him as Speaker if he dares do anything they don't like.
McCarthy wants to keep his power position (even though, as it's currently set up, he doesn't really have much power) more than he wants to help this country. If helping the country would result in some minor harm to the level of power he has, he'll let America burn.
So make part of the negotiations with the Democrats to support him when they try to remove him as speaker. It's simple.
I agree, but McCarthy is still clinging to the hope that he'll escape this without anyone subjecting him to another vote for his speakership. (He's delusional.)
Right?
The house is close, but it's not so close that the Dems can get Jeffries in. The next best thing is letting the GOP absolutely tear each other apart.
Which they're doing.
And right now, the best way to thread the political needle, would be to basically offer McCarthy a deal with the Dem devil:
Bring the Senate bill to the floor and find just five of your GOP friends to vote for it. In return, we back you when that pedophile Gaetz, she-ape Greene, and Trashy Barbie Boebert set up a recall vote. We'll back you, and surely you can come up with 5 votes from your own side...right?
This is what I dont get. He could make a deal that he'll pass that budget as is, but the dems need to vote for it AND they have to have a handful offset the MAGA caucus if they try to remove him. Whats wrong with our congress that they'd rather shut down everything vs working with each other.
He's lost his speakership no matter what at this point.
He's still delusional enough to think that he'll cling onto it using some brilliant maneuver. Were McCarthy an extremely skilled politician, I might think that was possible, but McCarthy is far from extremely skilled. Very, very far from it.
He’s going to be removed anyway. He’s chicken shit.