The legislator rebelled! The US House of Representatives is paralyzed by debt | Speaker | US House of Representatives
According to the Associated Press, under the influence of the debt ceiling agreement, US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suddenly faces a new threat to his power, and angry hardline right-wing conservatives have paralyzed the House of Representatives. They once again expressed their dissatisfaction with the compromise reached between McCarthy and President Biden, and demanded further spending cuts.
According to reports, on the 7th, more than ten Republicans brought the US House of Representatives to a halt in protest against McCarthy's leadership. The regular vote in the House of Representatives cannot be conducted, and two important bills for the Republican Party have also been put on hold. Some legislators asked if it was possible to simply go home, and in the end, they were granted permission. Because the remaining voting schedule for this week has been cancelled.
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was interviewed outside the congressional office on the 7th
Due to the Republican Party's narrow majority in the House of Representatives, any few Republicans may have significant influence.
The consequences of the debt ceiling agreement are becoming a focal point of attention, according to reports: the Republican right-wing hardliners who reluctantly helped McCarthy, the Speaker, take office five months ago, are not finished with McCarthy.
The stalemate between conservatives and the Speaker of the House revolves around the budget level agreed upon by McCarthy in the debt ceiling bill reached with Biden, which is strongly opposed by the right wing of the House. Although the agreement limits government spending, it is not as much as the hardline Republican right-wing forces demand. Due to the failure to prevent the passage of the debt bill last week, conservatives are now carefully studying and preparing for a longer struggle to prevent the bill from taking effect.
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According to the New York Times, McCarthy and President Biden reached a compromise on the debt ceiling, which angered extreme conservative Republicans. They entered the second day of McCarthy's mutiny, and their control of the House of Representatives showed that they held great power, raising doubts about whether McCarthy could continue to hold his weak and difficult to control majority in the House.
The US House of Representatives has been forced to cancel voting for two consecutive days, and the voting schedule for the remaining time of this week has been cancelled. The House of Representatives cannot return to normalcy until more than ten mutinies have backed down and regained support for the Republican Party in the vote.
The paralysis of the House of Representatives this week is an extremely rare example of a faction within the majority party holding its own party hostage, reminiscent of McCarthy's difficult week of up to 15 rounds of voting to win the position of Speaker of the House, when he needed to win the support of far right lawmakers - many of whom were also instigators of the current farce.
On the evening of the 7th, McCarthy admitted that the situation was a bit chaotic, but he insisted that he would put the party agenda back on track.
This farce reproduces the long-term operation of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives: the Speaker is constantly threatened by a small group of far right-wing destroyers, and cannot carry out work unless they surrender to their demands.