hard-liners on key committees and sources told me that at least six of the holdouts are now assigned to top tier committee assignments. that does make for a total of 16 house freedom caucus members on these key top tier so-called a-list committees, and it is going to change the dynamics of how these committees operate, especially as they are approaching decisions about spending, government funding, the debt ceiling, something that is looming and will probably have to be dealt with later this year. but i will tell you that mccarthy allies are trying to spin this in a positive way and say they re going to sort out all the potential issues before they get to the floor. the idea is when you come out of appropriations or ways and means with the debt limit, whatever key piece of legislation, every group has already had their fingerprint on
An essay in the conservative Federalist approvingly quotes a "senior congressional aide" who calls the concessions won by dissident House Freedom Caucus Members in the battle to elect the House Speaker the "most significant win for conservatives in a decade." “Everything that Republicans and conservatives say they hate giant, thousand-page spending bills negotiated by…
package. and the top, line if you here are gonna raise that, limit you have to cut somewhere, we want to see a balanced budget, that sounds well and good but when you actually begin to it, if you do try to do something like that, suddenly you re gonna for spending cuts, or federal programs that democrats and republicans alike might be dependent on, do they realize what they re getting into here? certainly, they are the people who are supporters of kevin mccarthy, who say he knew exactly what he s getting into, when he s making these concessions and his fight to become how speaker which we have course all saw in that wild week we all live through last week, and then of course the critics say, they don t really understand what s gonna be happening because for the last two years kevin mccarthy s gonna have to go through sort of what we went through the past week which is tried and wheel and deal, to get the house freedom caucus members to go along with possibly not slashing the defense
getting into here? certainly, i mean there are the people who are supporters of kevin mccarthy who say that he knew exactly what he was getting into when he was making these concessions in his fight to become how speaker, which we of, course all saw in that wild week that we all live through last week. and of course, there the critics who say that they don t really understand what is going to be happening. because, for the next two years, as they just, said kevin mccarthy is really going to have a vote over the last few weeks because they re trying to really see how to get the house freedom caucus members to go along with possibly flashing the defense budget or not flashing critical program that american secession, a time when we could be going for a recession with the makeshift and the wages are not following the same level of inflation. and, frankly, we are still living through a pandemic. there are a lot of along the government, and the democrats and republicans who maybe had a
reporter: well, the house gop conference is meeting right now for the first time since kevin mccarthy was elected speaker. there is definitely a sense of relief that they finally were able to elect a speaker. in fact, sources tell annie greer they kipd off the meeting playing a bad lip reading video of kevin mccarthy and matt gaetz s floor fight. in a good mood, a sense of celebration but there is some lingering concern among members, particularly the moderates, about what concessions that kevin mccarthy had to agree to in order to get the speaker s gavel. while some of the concessions were spelled out in the package that passed last night some were not. we re told that nancy mace is planning to stand up in the conference meeting today and demand to see a list of every promise that kevin mccarthy agreed to. we as reporters have been pressing mccarthy when is he going to release this list? he has not said or answered those questions. we do know based on our reporting that one of those