Just 48 hours before the floor debate, McCarthy expected to muscle the legislation through anyway, telling members his bill would not be changed. The GOP leader introduced his Limit, Save, Grow Act last week, but as recently as earlier this week, he still didn’t have the votes. assage of the bill on a 217-215 vote hands Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., a small and much-needed symbolic victory, underscoring his ability to bring together his razor-thin, often rambunctious majority. The Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday to pass a bill to raise the debt limit, slash spending and roll back key pieces of President Joe Biden’s agenda after a series of concessions overnight to win over stubborn GOP holdouts. Yesterday afternoon, as NBC News reported, the party managed to pass the ransom note as a piece of legislation - but just barely. After several months of this utterly bonkers dynamic, House Republican leaders - ignoring their earlier commitments to an above-board process - completed a ransom note behind closed doors, skipped the committees, and bypassed any meaningful policy scrutiny.
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