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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House to McCarthy: 'Come clean' on your backroom speaker deals
Is there a secret three-page memo or was there just handshakes? We need to know what McCarthy traded away or promised the Freedom Caucus
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/17/white-house-to-mccarthy-come-clean-on-your-backroom-speaker-deals-00078105
The White House is escalating its fight with newly empowered congressional Republicans, with officials Tuesday calling on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to come clean about secretive deals he made with hardline members that helped him eventually land the top job.
An unprecedented tax hike on the middle class and a national abortion ban are just a glimpse of the secret, backroom deals Speaker McCarthy made with extreme MAGA members to end this months chaotic elections and claim the gavel, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement shared first with POLITICO. It is well past time for Speaker McCarthy and the ultra MAGA Republican House members to come out of the dark and tell the American people, in-full, what they decided in secret.
While McCarthy has insisted he made no formal agreements in exchange for getting conservative holdouts to vote for him, conservative members have said they received certain promises from the new speaker. They have also pointed to action on their priority legislation as a direct result of the recent House leadership negotiations.
The White House had long been gearing up to paint the incoming House Republican caucus as beholden to their most conservative members. But President Joe Biden has tried to turn the policy implications of Republicans priority bills, including legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and replace more progressive income taxes with a national sales tax, into a political cudgel. White House officials also said the Republican leadership talks laid the groundwork for the House to vote on a national abortion ban and argue the GOP will use the debt limit standoff to try to force cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
An unprecedented tax hike on the middle class and a national abortion ban are just a glimpse of the secret, backroom deals Speaker McCarthy made with extreme MAGA members to end this months chaotic elections and claim the gavel, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement shared first with POLITICO. It is well past time for Speaker McCarthy and the ultra MAGA Republican House members to come out of the dark and tell the American people, in-full, what they decided in secret.
While McCarthy has insisted he made no formal agreements in exchange for getting conservative holdouts to vote for him, conservative members have said they received certain promises from the new speaker. They have also pointed to action on their priority legislation as a direct result of the recent House leadership negotiations.
The White House had long been gearing up to paint the incoming House Republican caucus as beholden to their most conservative members. But President Joe Biden has tried to turn the policy implications of Republicans priority bills, including legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and replace more progressive income taxes with a national sales tax, into a political cudgel. White House officials also said the Republican leadership talks laid the groundwork for the House to vote on a national abortion ban and argue the GOP will use the debt limit standoff to try to force cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
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White House to McCarthy: 'Come clean' on your backroom speaker deals (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Jan 2023
OP
MTG & Paul Gosar have been given committee assignments for the new Congress,
LetMyPeopleVote
Jan 2023
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,128 posts)1. MTG & Paul Gosar have been given committee assignments for the new Congress,
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,128 posts)2. Kevin McCarthy cut a secret deal ...in order to become Speaker
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,917 posts)3. Touche'