After last week’s chaotic, turbulent and agonizing elections, Kevin McCarthy, speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, passed his first test for himself on Monday. ability to control the shaky Republican majority. Conservatives succeeded approve the rule pack A body of rules, some of which will govern the Lower House at the 118th Congress. concessions That McCarthy formed the most extremist wing of the tribune to win the election, and that these two turbulent years in Congress and the country increased fears.
With a weak majority in a 435-member legislature with 222 seats, McCarthy can only afford to lose four votes if he wants to continue his initiatives. And although his deal with the extremists aroused suspicion and anxiety in its formation, in the end just a moderate republican joined the Democrats breaking the rules, Green light by 220 votes to 213. (There was no other Republican.)
Rules
The rules allow single legislator initiates the process of ‘speaker’ dismissal. They also open the door to the creation of inquiry panels, including: Subcommittee to investigate allegedly politicized use of the Ministry of Justicesomething conservatives have denounced since presidency donald trump.
Also a supermajority to approve tax increases. And let the legislators using budget laws to disrupt the funding of government programs or for … reducing the salary of official positions or even laying them offIt is estimated that conservatives will try to use it against names they target, such as National Security Minister Alejandro Majorkas, whom they hold responsible for the crisis. immigration.
In addition, the approved rules, they eliminate the option to vote remotely or delegated voting to facilitate the legislator’s duties. Pandemic your covid. And they will force that bills “address a single issue””, with the idea of deterring the usual practice of mixing legislation of a different nature and not related to the basic idea of a bill.
other concessions
Many other parts of the deal McCarthy signed with the ultras, including the highly controversial and far-reaching ones, are not included in the rules package, and it is unknown if or when they will be made public. Among these concessions, The most extremist wing has a key role in the Committee, which decides which laws to debate. on camera.
McCarthy has also associated with ultra-conservatives. Pair any support for raising the debt ceiling with parallel spending cuts by the amount the ceiling is raised. And will approve of imposing on discretionary expenses What Limit 2022 levelswhich? forces us to cut budgeted spending for 2023, including to defendIt was approved at the end of December in a $1.7 trillion package containing 45,000 million for aid to Ukraine
Both the rules and other agreements, reached behind closed doors and not made public, were repeatedly denounced by Democratic representative Jim McGovern in the debate before Monday’s vote. He ensured that the new rules for the Chamber were “not a serious management initiative” and equated them with “a bill demanding payment”. ransom without kidnapping a far-right United States of America”.
first invoice
Immediately after ratifying the rules, Republicans first bill, what will he try Withdraw $71,000M from the U.S. Treasury It was mandated last year to try to tackle tax evasion under the Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Joe Biden.
The norm is almost Zero chance of passing the Senate Democratic majority and even so, Biden’s veto has already been announced. As calculated by the Congressional Budget Office, if it were to see the light would add 114,000 million to the deficit in ten yearsand that’s by the Democrats”hypocrisyFrom Republicans who took control of the House by ensuring their priority was to cut government spending.