And as we know, McCarthy ultimately won that fight by making those concessions, the most notable of them being that any one member of the House could call a vote to basically fire McCarthy as Speaker at any time, which effectively put him at the mercy of the same wing of his party who he had the hardest time winning over.Īnd the question coming out of all of that was whether Speaker McCarthy could ever truly rule this unruly group of Republicans or whether he was basically doomed as Speaker from the start. And that fight pitted McCarthy against the most hardline conservatives in the House who wanted to extract concessions from him before they would vote for him as Speaker. And Kevin McCarthy and the new, very narrow House Republican majority had just finished a grueling fight over the speakership. Today, for Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the looming crisis over the US debt ceiling may soon require him to make a painful choice - prevent a financial catastrophe or keep his job.Ĭongressional reporter Catie Edmondson explains.Ĭatie, the last time we had you on the show, it was back in January. michael barbaroįrom “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro.

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