new age divided government United States of America Voting starts this time in November Tuesday. Washington at noon, marking the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. Session of the new Congress beginsThat Republicans have regained fragile control of the Lower House and Democrats have managed to minimally strengthen their meager majority in the Upper House. This distribution allows us to estimate. two years of intense political battles and multiple Challenges for President Joe Biden’s agendaThe beginning of the 118th Congress was especially internal conflict by conservativessections that Threatening the election of Kevin McCarthy as new Speaker of the House.
Revolt of a handful of congressmen extreme right Questions about whether the Californian chosen to take over from Nancy Pelosi can be approved on the first ballot. In the last few days and hours McCarthy, concessions to their demands, including a change in rules that would make it easier for just five people to initiate a process to remove the ‘speaker’, or a guarantee to give extremists like Marjorie Taylor Greene more representation on committees.
McCarthy is also a Special committee to investigate FBI and Justice Department (marked by donald trump and his aides, for alleged political persecution), threatened to investigate the incident. Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol and recommended that Trump be impeached and joined the calls for his resignation or if they fail ‘blameFrom the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Majorcadue to his condition, immigration On the Mexican border.
Regardless, it’s not clear that McCarthy managed to secure himself enough votes (218 if all congressmen voted for the position by naming a candidate). and sleeps probability of not being elected on the first ballotsomething that hasn’t happened since 1923 and it just happened 14 times since 1789. This will result in the voting being repeated until the majority is the winner. It took two months in 1855 and received 133 votes.
republic plans
This potential chaos It could delay the implementation of Republican plans on Capitol Hill, which left. little hope for bipartisan cooperation in the next two years and underestimate slowdown in legislative speed Compared to the first two years of Biden’s term.
For example, the first vote conservatives will raise in the House of Representatives, Withdraw funds provided to the Treasury This was included in the Inflation Reduction Act, which donated $80,000 million to the agency and required 87,000 employees to be hired.
Although a glance possible cooperation Between two rows to work in the Lower House competition with China, the rest of the panorama is gray or directly gloomy. Topics such as the continuation are on the table. help ukraine and practically or completely vain hopes agree on issues such as immigration, gun control or abortion. It is also unavoidable to be read in a partisan key. Research What Republicans Promised About Their Origins covid-19, withdrawal from Afghanistan anyone Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
debt ceiling
If there is one thing to worry about, it is the possibility that Republicans will use their newfound power over finances to force Biden and the Democrats to accept conservative goals, particularly pension cuts or more control at the border. . . And the great war is born of the urgent need of the United States. raise the debt ceiling something the republicans raised to obstruct if these are not done radical changes in spending What are they looking for?
it’s already tangible horror on wall streetespecially in memory of the similar struggle waged by the Lower House of the Republic during its mandate barack obama and that pointed the US into the abyss. Seven of the nine Republicans who voted in December to vote on a law preventing an operational shutdown of the government will not be in Congress, which begins its journey this Tuesday. And Democrat John Yarmuth, who has so far chaired the Budget committee, said: the next two years will be brutally painfuland they will be painful for the country.
Republicans will also try to implement other ideas that they outlined in their “Commitment to America” legislative plan they presented before the “midterms”. And one of them is on Capitol Hill culture wars They serve on school boards on education issues. race and Genderespecially those referring to people transgender.