The debt-ceiling deal passed the House by sweeping bipartisan margins, leading the Speaker to dunk on his haters.
finally did it. On Wednesday, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote including the vast majority of Republicans, the House finally passed an increase to the debt ceiling and did so as a part of a package that included some Republican goals to limit spending. It was the end of the arduous journey for McCarthy that had started only moments after heto be Speaker after midnight on the 15th ballot in January.
There was plenty of reason to underestimate McCarthy throughout. Even during the day, there was a near-death experience. After he neededto get the deal through the gatekeeping Rules Committee on Tuesday, that still needed to be ratified on the floor of the House Wednesday afternoon. The committee’s role was to set the terms under which a bill would be debated. Normally, this was simply a partisan exercise.
At the moment the question was asked, only 187 yea votes were cast, none of which were from Democrats. Almost immediately, Brad Schneider of Illinois and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey put down green cards at the clerk’s table to show they were voting yes. Calls had gone out from Jeffries’s office to prime members for this and a mix of moderate and swing-district Democrats were just waiting for the signal.
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