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The McCarthy-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund and the Club for Growth – which hasn’t supported McCarthy so far – have apparently reached an agreement. The two groups issued a joint statement backing McCarthy.
opposed to McCarthy have been complaining that the CLF had unduly meddled in open seat primaries and worked against conservative candidates.While Congress remained in disarray today, Joe Biden made an appearance in Kentucky alongside Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to tout a $1.6bn bridge borne out of the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law.
McConnell echoed: “We all know these are really partisan times. But I always feel that no matter who gets elected, once it’s all over, we ought to look for things that we can agree on and try to do those, even while we have big differences on other things.”
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