is dually elected speaker of the house of representatives. i hope one thing is clear, i never give up. but what did mccarthy trade away for the gavel? and can the weekend speaker rule his unruly caucus? plus, a party united. the d in democrat stands for deliver. in the wake of the republicans disarray, are democrats the real winner. and biden announces a new crackdown on illegal crossings. the president will see the crisis firsthand for the first time. my message is this, do not just show up at the border. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. after 15 ballots and four days, kevin owen mccarthy became the 55th speaker of the house early on saturday morning. this week offered us a rare and maybe unprecedented window into the drama taking place on the house floor as a party went to war with itself. the wheeling and dealing as different factions hunted for support, the agony of the vote that went the wrong way for mccarthy. parents on the floor dealing
rules that they are talking about, reducing spending to 2022 levels which would be big cuts in government spending, and this was one of the problems that mccarthy faced is moderates were upset about it. this is not in the rules package. it s a secret document that s floating around. they re not actually even letting people have copies. so. how damaging it would be for them if it got out. there s going to be they re going to try and pass the rules package. they ll get that done and they ll launch into votes that they think will help them. abortion votes, a crime vote. we re going to see a fight pretty soon on immigration. that s going to happen in the house, and that s going to be the first plflash point. he s going to have a problem there. mccarthy is going to have a problem there. as you pointed out some of the concessions we re learning that mccarthy made is they can cap spending at fiscal 2022 levels which would be a cut to