Aaron Blake: “Well, Crazytown now puts significantly more levers of power in the hands of its most extreme denizens, thanks to the second-smallest GOP majority in the past 90 years and the major concessions McCarthy chose to grant his holdouts during negotiations.”
“They’ll have significant say on the hugely important House Rules Committee. They reportedly will be able to demand budget cuts in order to raise the debt ceiling (which heightens the odds of a debt default). And just one member can move to oust McCarthy if they don’t like what he’s doing — what’s known as a ‘motion to vacate the chair.’ That’s a situation which contributed to Boehner’s resignation and which former speaker Paul D. Ryan’s team compared to a ‘weapon pointed at [the speaker] all the time.’”
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