members dead set saying they want their way and pushing for deeper spending cuts and adding tougher immigration restrictions in a must pass bill. and things the senate and the white house will not expect. what johnson agreed to here is a short-term stop-gap bill until early march. back in november, he said there would be no more short-term stopgap. he s trying to move ahead here given the division in his conference. i spent last week talking about what happened to members and the ones who supported kevin mccarthy and said the efforts to push him out made no sense because they are left in precisely the same place they were amid mccarthy s ouster. there was flo sense in getting rid of kevin mccarthy. and so those members that are now thinking that things are going to change and if they get somebody new, you have to face
reality, man. okay. and they re not facing reality. this is where we re going to end up from the get-go. let s put it that way. i feel like we went through a four or five month detour to end up where we should have been all along. i just think there is a lot of people that would like to see him fail. i think there are still people loyal to kevin mccarthy and would like to say i told you so and don t care if they bring the country down or not. that is from tom burchette, offering no regrets for that vote. and the members who did push out kevin mccarthy have no regrets for it. i did talk to bob good, part of effort to oust kevin mccarthy and he said that johnson s job is not insecure and because johnson is walking into this position right now. so he said he could not blame
speaker? he s making a bet that the motion to vacate, the threat to dump eliminate out of dump him out of the speaker s office yet again is something the rebels don t actually want to do because they saw the chaos the last time around. they saw the damage it can do to the party. he s making a bet that s a lot of grousing. we ll see if that s true. i suspect it is in this case because i think there s a recognition among those rebels that if you roll the dice again, you could get an outcome that they re going to like a lot less than speaker mike johnson. the last time around, remember, democrats and the problem solvers caucus came right up to the edge of saying that we re going to step in and get a more moderate speaker that we re comfortable with. if that happened this time around, that suddenly means they do not have the power that they have over mike johnson. but kara, what johnson is talking about, which is basically making a deal that s going to have a lot of republican opposi
senate, how long will he last as speaker? he s making a bet that the motion to vacate, the threat to dump him out of the speaker s office yet again is something that the rebels don t actually want to do because they saw the chaos the last time around. they saw the damage that it can do to the party. so he is making the bet that that s just a lot of grousing. we ll see if that s true. i suspect it is in this case because i think there s a recognition among those rebels that if you roll the dice again, you could get an outcome that they re going to like a lot less than speaker mike johnson. the last time around, remember, democrats and the problem solvers caucus came right up to the edge of saying we re going to step in and get a more moderate speaker that we re comfortable with. if that happened this time around, that is something they do not have the power they have over mike johnson. but kara, what johnson is talking about, which is basically making a deal that s going to have a l
that s the far right bloc that has been a persistent thorn in the pseudoof the leadership team. now with speaker johnson. they tended to try to scuttle this deal that johnson cut with chuck schumer. they believe d it spent too muc money and demanded for severe restrictions on the southern border with mexico. things that the the kras would not accept. johnson try ining to kut a deal tout some conservative victories. he was open to discussing the concerns of the far right members, but just moments ago, say that he would not side with those concerns and would stick to the agreement he cut with chuck schumer. when i asked bob good a about this, one of the eight members that kevin mccarthy was oust ed by. he made clear he was opposed to what johnson is doing, but he was not going to try to push johnson out of the speakership. how kiss adisappointed are yu