The 55-page plan that Republicans passed Monday night enshrines major changes to how legislating happens, with big consequences for new Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Will do a forensic kind of review of what happened. i think you re going to see a lot of ties to the trump orbit. this is not what we want to be doing as a country that for so long stood for so much good in the world. we have much more on this ahead. but we ll turn to politics in america for a moment. after 14 failed votes and a dramatic friday night on capitol hill, kevin mccarthy is house speaker this morning. the california republican won the gavel. late last week on his 15th try after finally reaching a deal with the detractors from his own party that involved several major concessions to the far right freedom caucus. those concessions include promised spending cuts, a package of changes to the rules that watered down the speaker s power, and giving freedom caucus members seats on key committees like the powerful appropriations and rules committees. mccarthy also agreed to a rule giving a single lawmaker the
Gaetz i think has really set himself out as the leader, if you will, of this rebel kind of faction and forced mccarthy s hands in some significant ways. we heard about some of the concessions coming out over the course of the week, allowing one single member to call for a vote to oust the speaker which makes mccarthy vulnerable, concessions such as allowing for unending amendments and debates on spending bills. getting a third of the freedom caucus on the rules committees. so gaetz and his allies got a lot out of this battle that allow them to put a lot of pressure on mccarthy and hold him hostage for the next two years. depending on who you believe on this. former president trump helped sway here. what did you make of the fact that mccarthy thanked trump but clearly said, in his words, that he was all in? so trump s position in this has been interesting from the start.
Legislation that would create Massachusetts Secure Choice, a state-run retirement program that would provide coverage for private-sector employees whose employers do not offer a retirement plan, is now before the Rules Committees of both chambers of the Bay State’s legislature. The legislation was introduced in the state Senate and House of Representatives early in 2021.