for now doesn t hurt him to have the house passed essentially what is a messaging bill to prioritize how the debt would be dealt with by the treasury department. presidents not gonna sign it. to residents point a think it helps to build capital, probably, but it also escalates the fight. brendan, what do you think kevin mccarthy s strategy is here? mccarthy has to show his members that he is willing to fight for this. there will be a bunch of things that they do throughout the year, but only a couple of them really murder matter. one of them is funding the government the others the debt limit. and that s coming soon. but to get the speakership mccarthy had to make a bunch of promises, particularly on fiscal issues. these are some of the ones that we didn t really, you didn t really see. there was a handshake deal. and effectively promised a bunch of the members that he was going to go to the mat to cut spending and he s going to insist that the senate come along into the same. and
of every concession kevin mccarthy made in his quest to become speaker. despite the fact they have called for a more open and transparent government. now, some of these concessions were explicitly spelled out and a house rules package, which republicans did pass last, night with the support of every republican except for one. but some of these other promises that were, made ridden through more of a handshake deal. gop leaders are insisting that there is an official master, list and wasn t aside, deal they tried to walk members through what some of those verbal agreements were doing conference meetings this morning. that includes time is a hard line for democrats, and could to have a fiscal showdown. it is also promised to put more conservative members on key committees. but, some rank and file members take a look what nancy mace told our colleagues today.
reporter: some of them absolutely are. behind the scenes they made some of these key decisions. two members in particular, michael cloud and andrew clyde. they unusually were two republicans who held out on kevin mccarthy. we re told they will have a seat on the house appropriations committee. that funds the federal government. there are also other members as well. byron donalds who was nominated to run against mccarthy fell short of those votes and he ll have a seat on the financial services committee. this is all part of mccarthy s deal. he promised more representation from some members of that hard-right freedom caucus, and that won over some of these key members. we re learning more and more about elements of kevin mccarthy s handshake deal, and that s exactly how he got the votes to get ballots to become speaker. it s all coming together. thank you. with us kelly armstrong, making these decisions about committee assignments. congressman, thank you so much
what do we know about the side deals? gop leaders are not committing to releasing a public list of every concession kevin mccarthy made in his quest to become speaker. despite the fact that they have called for a more open and transparent government. some of the concessions were explicitly spelled out in the house rules package, which republicans did pass last night with the support of every republican except for one. some of the other promises that were made were done through more of a handshake deal. gop leaders are insisting there isn t an official master list and it wasn t some side deal. they tried to walk members through what some of the verbal agreements were during a conference meeting this morning. that includes tieing the debt ceiling. it could tee up a fiscal showdown. a promise to put more conservative members on key committees. some rank and file members still feel like they are in the dark. take a listen to what nancy mace
unprecedented until they happen. [ laughter ] we will see. i think that rule change, despite the attention it has had, might be more of a symbolic threat than real threat. moving to things to worry about, also the republican agreement to cap all federal spending at level set two years ago. this one could conceivably have big consequences for the federal budget and therefore operations of the federal government, including military. that is only if they hold themselves to it. this spending cap arrangement is basically a handshake deal to me not a binding rule. there is nothing on the republicans to actually following that rule. again, that sort of want to watch, but they could eat their way out of it, if they wanted to. they ve received a lot of attention so far. there is another provision in this deal i think it s kind of a sleeper, is worth more notice that it has received so far. the provision is a part of a