McCarthy Cuts Deal, Votes to Move in Next Ballot
- Lone Star Truth Initiative
- Jan 4, 2023
- 1 min read
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has made a major deal with key holdout votes, but the House voted 216-214 to adjourn until noon Thursday.
Hammered out by the Club for Growth, the deal will move votes to McCarthy. Key to the agreement was the House leadership stay out of open primaries.
The next vote is expected to move in McCarthy's favor, and it will be much closer.
But that vote will have to come Thursday.
The House came back into session at 8 p.m. ET and despite House Democrat Whip Katherine Clark, D-Conn., whipping votes against adjournment, there were enough votes to adjourn.
House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect their leader McCarthy as House speaker or come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of their new majority.
For a fourth, fifth and sixth time, Republicans tried to vote McCarthy into the top job as the House plunged deeper into disarray. But the votes were producing almost the same outcome, 20 conservative holdouts still refusing to support him, and leaving him far short of the 218 typically needed to win the gavel.
