Kevin McCarthy’s Career-Deciding Week

“Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his allies are 24 hours away from their next big gamble in Congress’ spending crisis. It’s still not clear they have the votes,” Politico reports.

“House GOP leaders on Tuesday will try to move forward on four spending bills jam-packed with conservative wins that would do nothing to avert a shutdown that looms Saturday at midnight. Given united Democratic opposition, McCarthy can’t lose more than a handful of Republican votes.”

“The speaker is projecting confidence that he’s flipped enough of the five Republican holdouts who voted against a similar vote just last week, as the Californian makes yet another attempt to get his fractured conference on the same page. Some leadership allies still have doubts, however, and are wary of another humiliating defeat on the floor as the shutdown ticks closer.”