Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy WILL OLIVER | EFE
They believe that the Republican leaders did not take into account the red lines that were marked as part of the negotiations
The rebellion of a group of congressmen from the Republican Party against the leader of the formation in the House of Representatives of the United States of America forced a paralysis of legislative activity in this body on Wednesday. The rebels, a group of a dozen lawmakers close to the far right Freedom Clubthey showed their disagreement with the pact o debt ceiling negotiated by the Republican Majority Speaker in this House, kevin mccarthyand approved last weekend.
Republican Matt Gaetz, a confirmed member of the Freedom Caucus, defended himself on Twitter on Wednesday that if the House is now paralyzed, it was because Republican leaders did not close ranks on the red lines they set on the debt. ceiling.
Faced with a deadlock, the House of Representatives on Wednesday canceled a vote that was supposed to take place by the end of the week. After the activity closed, a Republican spokesman assured that some of the absent lawmakers “didn’t even know what to ask” in exchange for returning the legislative activity of that chamber to its trough.
The origin of the situation
The impasse began to form with the January election of McCarthy as speaker. So, after weeks of negotiations, he won the support of the most radical wing of the Republican group in exchange for a series of commitments, including the possibility that the will of a single member of the parliamentary group could start the process of removing him from office.
The debt ceiling crisis forced McCarthy to work with Democrats to avoid an administration default, which radicals saw as diminishing the leverage they had gained in the January negotiations.
In the House of Representatives, the slim majority enjoyed by Republicans gives each member of the conservative caucus disproportionate power over the legislative abilities of the entire group. Now this excessive power is at the service of the Freedom Caucus, which has not hesitated to use it to block the Republican legislative agenda in favor of its own goals.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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