GOP leadership insist they will vote on debt ceiling bill TOMORROW but do not have the votes
Kevin McCarthy’s race against time: GOP leadership insists they’ll vote on debt ceiling TOMORROW – but they STILL don’t have the votes as the party battles over ethanol subsidies and job requirements
- At least seven Republicans are willing to vote against the bill if IRA ethanol subsidy recovery provisions are not changed
- DailyMail.com has confirmed that all four Iowa Republicans, along with two from Minnesota and one from Missouri, are willing to slay party leadership
- House GOP Whip Tom Emmer, told reporters as he walked into the speaker’s office Tuesday afternoon, “We’re going to pass it on tomorrow”
A day before Chairman Kevin McCarthy hopes to pass a debt ceiling bill and form a united front in his stalemate with the president over austerity, he still lacks the votes.
At least seven Republicans are willing to vote against the bill if the provisions on recovering ethanol subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are not changed.
DailyMail.com has confirmed that all four Iowa Republicans, along with two farmland lawmakers from Minnesota and one from Missouri, are willing to oppose party leadership and use their collective power to either reject an amendment to the bill force or deny McCarthy the victory he feels he needs. Biden to force the negotiating table on the debt ceiling.
On Tuesday night before the House of Representatives vote, McCarthy met with Republicans from agricultural districts who expressed concern for more than an hour.
Asked if he would reopen the bill to address opponent concerns, McCarthy told reporters, “No, we’re going to pass the bill.”
“Don’t you listen to my answers?” he asked.
A day before Chairman Kevin McCarthy hopes to pass a debt ceiling bill and form a united front in his stalemate with the president over austerity, he still hasn’t got the votes
House GOP Whip Tom Emmer, told reporters as he walked into the speaker’s office Tuesday afternoon, “We’re going to pass it on tomorrow”
All Tuesday, committee and caucus chairmen from all over the conference walked in and out of his office as the speaker tried to get his broken and free-thinking regular members together.
House GOP Whip Tom Emmer, who has been working overtime to assemble the vote, told reporters Tuesday afternoon as he walked into the speaker’s office, “We’re going to pass it on tomorrow.”
But Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, as he left a meeting with McCarthy, told reporters “we’ll work until we vote” to get all Republicans on board and he “wouldn’t be surprised” if changes were made to the bill.
Others who had encounters with the speaker had several takeaways.
Rep. Kevin Hern, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told reporters as he left McCarthy’s office, “The speaker said he’s not changing the bill… they’re not going to open the bill.”
In addition, Rep. George Santos, RN.Y., told DailyMail.com that he is still willing to vote no if SNAP job requirements regulations are not tightened. He is offering an amendment to the bill that would change the weekly work requirements from 20 to 30 hours.
DailyMail.com has confirmed that all four Iowa Republicans, along with two farmland lawmakers from Minnesota and one from Missouri, are willing to oppose party leadership.
Although ethanol is only mentioned three times in the IRA, ethanol producers benefit from clean fuel production credits, incentives for ethanol-based jet fuel, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage facilities.
The debt ceiling bill, the Limit Save Grow Act, would overturn the IRA’s clean energy provisions, ban Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, add tougher job requirements for social programs like SNAP and House Republicans’ HR 1 energy package, and introduce the regulatory cut . REINS Act.
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., is now a “hard no” on the bill because he wants the new job requirements to take effect immediately rather than in 2025. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-FLa., vowed to vote against the bill for the same reason.
Rep. Nancy Mace is leaning no against the parts of the bill that cut clean energy subsidies related to solar power, which has a large presence in her state.
McCarthy says the bill would save $4.5 trillion by capping spending in 2024 at fiscal year 2022 levels and then limiting growth to 1 percent per year, in exchange for agreeing to remove the $100 borrowing limit. 31.4 trillion of the country by $1.5 trillion.
While McCarthy and the Republicans insist that Biden must sit down to negotiate budget cuts in exchange for an increase in the country’s borrowing limit, Biden insists that the Republicans must endure a clean debt-ceiling hike, as they did under Donald Trump.
If the speaker can’t get his conference to agree on the sprawling Limit Save Grow Act, Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would certainly take the opportunity to insist that McCarthy can never get Republicans to agree on adequate spending cuts and approve a clean slate. account debt ceiling.