Republican ‘Never Kevins’ say series of concessions to rightwingers are ‘insufficient’ to secure support
McCarthy can afford to lose only four votes from his party’s slender majority if he is to win the election for speaker that will be among the first orders of business for the new Congress.
“Thus far, there continue to be missing specific commitments with respect to virtually every component of our entreaties, and thus, no means to measure whether promises are kept or broken.”on Sunday as he attempted to secure the 218 votes he will need to become speaker. McCarthy said in his call on Sunday that “weeks of negotiations” had resulted in a “concession” of him agreeing to a threshold of five House members.”, a fluid group of hardliners including the Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, who have said they will not support him under any circumstance.
Other proposals by McCarthy would give lawmakers a minimum 72 hours to read a bill before it comes to the floor, and another concession to rightwingers of creating a select committee to investigate the “weaponization” of the FBI and justice department. “My guess is that whoever is speaker of the House will be so in a vice from the extreme members of their caucus, that they won’t be able to get anything done here. I really worry about defaulting,” Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat, said.
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