With overwhelming House passage of the debt ceiling and budget deal he negotiated with President Joe Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proved the naysayers and eye-rollers wrong.
PUBLISHED 4:12 PM ET Jun. 01, 2023House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is nothing if not a political survivor.
“You still ask the same questions each week: Do you think you can pass the bill this week. Do you think you will still be speaker next week,” McCarthy chided reporters after Wednesday’s late night vote. And perhaps most importantly for McCarthy, who has worked hard to maintain a relationship with Donald Trump, the former president gave a subdued nod of approval to the deal struck by the ally he used to affectionately call “My Kevin.”
But after suddenly dropping out of the speaker’s race in 2015 to replace John Boehner after an earlier generation of hard-right Republicans drove the then-speaker to early retirement, McCarthy tried again at the start of this year once Republicans swept to power in last fall’s midterm elections. After Wednesday’s roll call, when Democrats delivered more votes than Republicans to pass the debt ceiling package, Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado predicted the vote to oust the speaker would be underway in a matter of weeks.But the opposite has happened as rank-and-file Republicans are lifting the speaker up, rather than tearing him down.
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