Jay KuoSpeaker McCarthy has trapped himself on the debt ceiling. He can’t raise it cleanly without losing hardliners in the GOP, but he can’t put conditions on it, which is a non-starter for the White House. McCarthy’s latest math dilemma, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/math-is-hard-kevin?sd=pf
Math Is Hard, Kevin
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a very big problem, and he’s trying desperately to make it ours. In exchange for securing the votes, after an embarrassing 15 attempts, to finally elevate him to Speaker, McCarthy promised members of the far right, including the powerful “Freedom Caucus,” that he would not raise the debt ceiling cleanly. Instead, he promised them he would demand steep spending cuts as a precondition to raising it.
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