The House Goes Home Early

“House Republican leaders canceled votes Wednesday and Thursday, sending lawmakers home after having wasted a week on Republican infighting that’s called into question the viability of the GOP leadership,” Punchbowl News reports.

“Conservative hardliners have been warring with Speaker Kevin McCarthy after the chamber passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act last week, which raised the debt limit until 2025. The GOP’s right flank saw the agreement as a betrayal of the secret deal they forged with McCarthy back in January that allowed him to become speaker. McCarthy denied this claim, but conservatives refused to let the House move forward on anything until they got more concessions from the speaker.”