Kevin McCarthy denies it. Hakeem Jeffries denies it. But everyone in Washington DC knows that McCarthy and Jeffries cut a secret deal to secure enough Democrat support to pass the debt ceiling deal Wednesday night.
In fact, it would behoove McCarthy to come clean about the secret concessions. Otherwise, he’d be admitting that his first major act as Speaker of the House was to pass a LEFTIST debt ceiling deal as more Democrats in the House voted in favor of it than Republicans.
Axios reported on four Democrats who claim there was a deal made between the two leaders of their parties in the House to secure the votes:
Spokespeople for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) disputed four Democratic sources who told Axios the two leaders had cut a deal for Democrats to help advance the debt ceiling bill to a final vote.
Why it matters: The 52 Democratic votes on a measure to bring the debt ceiling bill to the floor were necessary for the bill’s survival after 29 Republicans had voted against moving it forward Wednesday afternoon. The bill eventually was approved on a 314-117 vote.
What we’re hearing: Four Democratic lawmakers said they had been told of a deal, with two saying they believed it involved boosting federal funding for projects in Democrats’ districts — known as earmarks or “community project funding” — if Democrats voted to advance the bill.
What they’re saying: McCarthy had told reporters after the initial afternoon vote that he had not cut a deal to ensure the Democratic votes. A spokesperson later told Axios that there was “absolutely no deal” — and that suggestions to the contrary by Democratic lawmakers were “not accurate.”
The context: The GOP resistance in the procedural “rules” vote was an unusual breach of norms — typically the majority party alone is considered responsible for putting a bill on the floor on those votes.
This is clearly grounds to remove McCarthy as Speaker of the House. As noted in an article about the passage of the bill itself, Republicans got essentially nothing of value from the deal while the White House got to avoid their dreaded default. For McCarthy to need more Democrats than Republicans to vote to pass his deal is an unambiguous indicator that he either got rolled, is not really a Republican, or both.
Once the Biden-McCarthy deal is fully understood, it will be about as popular with Republican voters as Bud Light … purchased on sale at Target. pic.twitter.com/HcpvXhymAn
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 1, 2023
It’s time for someone to file a motion to vacate.
Congressman Matt Gaetz said if a majority of Republicans voted against the deal, then he’d file the motion. But just because a majority of Republicans voted in favor of the bill doesn’t mean McCarthy should get to keep his job.
Here’s Gaetz issuing the warning ahead of the vote:
Matt Gaetz means business:
"If a majority of Republicans are against a piece of legislation, and you use Democrats to pass it, that would immediately be a black letter violation of the deal we had with McCarthy, and it would likely trigger an immediate motion to vacate." pic.twitter.com/ePseEHsCFy
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 30, 2023
Kevin McCarthy didn’t just kick the can down the road like his predecessors. He handed Joe Biden and the Democrats a 20-month hall pass to turn the money-printing machines on full blast. #MotionToVacate
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Matt Gaetz was too nonchalant about the deal. Did he even lift a finger to lobby against this bill?
Only the gullible are surprised, Goodbye McCarthy and the rest of the vermin who only come out to vote for their self interest. Screw the republican party, I am done falling for this BS.
Me too, Viti! Bull Moose Party for me!!!
I kicked the repubs to the curb years ago, this behavior is nothing new or unexpected. This betrayal by the repubs was guaranteed when the rino was voted in as speaker and that Romney Mcidiot scumbag was reinstalled as the chairperson.
I remember when the rinos controlled all three branches of government. Do you know what they achieved??? Zero, nothing, then they gave the government back to the fascists.
I’m sick of that two timing hag MTG, that cow is as corrupt as it can get. She’s sickening to listen to, she is so full of BS it’s enough to make you puke. They don’t get anymore fake than that thing. She can’t kiss McCarthy’s azz enough. I’m sure there is a permanent brown spot on her rino nose from having it up Mcidiot’s azz all the time.
Please, for the love of Pete, explain to me *why* people are surprised at this? McCarthy, et al, are all of the same cloth: career deepstate politicians of the uniparty. They DO NOT care about us! What will it take for people to clearly understand that? They lie, cheat, and steal because that is who and what they are. Mark my words, should Trump become the *republican* nominee, the uniparty will make certain, by ANY means they deem necessary, to eliminate him.
He will never be re elected. Elections are so obviously rigged and yet people are still dumb enough to think that we have an elected government, how quaint.
Both parties are fascist and both have the same goal, bring down the best nation in history.
The only way this will ever be made right is by violence, and a lot of it. I’m not advocating violence, but anyone with a brain knows what happens when the masses get set off.
Question is…what will it take to light the fuse of freedom again?
A deal soooo secret that whoever wrote this POS story doesn’t even know what it is. C’mon man… Dimocrat sources to get rid of McCarthy? Seriously?
20 months to money-print – just in time to help ensure the marxist-crooks of biden-coup regime get re-elected. fugging rinos.
This was McCarthy’s plan all along. Big question is…why did Trump pretty much endorse the scumbag fascist????
I also noted how many of the Trump endorsed reps voted for this travesty. What does that tell you???
Now watch the Trump endorsed senators vote for it too.
Isn’t McCarthy supposed to be accompanied by other true Republicans when negotiations of this caliber
are ongoing? How can he cut deals like that with the dimocrats with no one of the republicans being
present? This just boggles the mind.
It’s the rino gameplan.
Swamp Toad McCarthy is going nowhere. The flaccid grumblings by 2-3 token “patriotic” Reps are 100% theater to pacify Angry America. The “concessions” for electing McCarthy Speaker were 100% theater. To that end, so is everything that promotes Donald Trump, who is an even bigger, immensley more destructive RINO Swamp Toad Traitor than is McCarthy.
Well, when McCarthy was making his run for Speaker, many warned he could not be trusted. He would simply be nans without the stylish pants suits.
Is there one thing McCarthy promised the people and the House that he has kept?