Kevin McCarthy’s race against time: GOP leadership insists it will vote on debt ceiling bill tomorrow — but still doesn’t have the votes as party fights over ethanol subsidies and labor requirements
- At least seven Republicans are prepared to vote no on the bill if provisions that reinstate ethanol subsidies included in the IRA are not changed.
- DailyMail.com confirmed that all four Iowa Republicans with two from Minnesota and one from Missouri are ready to fight back for the party lead.
- “We’re going to pass it tomorrow,” GOP Tom Emmer told reporters as he headed to the speaker’s office Tuesday afternoon.
A day before House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hopes to pass a debt ceiling bill and present a united front in his impasse with the president over budget cuts, he still hasn’t got the votes.
At least seven Republicans are prepared to vote no on the bill if provisions restoring ethanol subsidies included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are not changed.
DailyMail.com confirmed that all four Iowa Republicans along with two farmland legislators from Minnesota and one from Missouri are ready to resist party leadership and use their collective strength to either force a change to the bill or deny McCarthy the victory he believes is need it. Force Biden to the debt ceiling negotiating table.
On Tuesday evening, before the House vote, McCarthy will meet with Republicans from farmland districts who simultaneously had concerns, but he said earlier in the day that the bill is moving forward as is.
A day before House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hopes to pass a debt ceiling bill and present a united front in his impasse with the president over budget cuts, he still hasn’t got the votes.
“We’re going to pass it tomorrow,” GOP Tom Emmer told reporters as he headed to the speaker’s office Tuesday afternoon.
All day Tuesday, chairmen of committees and caucuses from across the convention walked in and out of his office as the speaker tried to reason with his broken, free-thinking rank-and-file members.
“We’re going to pass it tomorrow,” House GOP whip Tom Emmer, who has been working overtime to tally votes, told reporters as he headed to the speaker’s office Tuesday afternoon.
But the chief of natural resources, Bruce Westermann, told reporters as he left a meeting with McCarthy that “we’re going to work right away until we vote” to include all Republicans, and he wouldn’t be surprised “if there are changes to the bill.
Others who had meetings with the speaker had different meals.
“The speaker said he’s not going to change the bill… They’re not going to open the bill,” Rep. Kevin Hearn, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told reporters as he left McCarthy’s office.
In addition, Rep. George Santos, RNY, told DailyMail.com he remains willing to vote “no” if the terms of SNAP’s work requirements are not tightened. He is offering an amendment to the bill that would change the weekly work requirement from 20 to 30 hours.
DailyMail.com confirmed that all four Iowa Republicans along with two farmland legislators from Minnesota and one from Missouri are ready to resist the party’s 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, use and storage terms.
The debt ceiling bill, the Growth Reduction Act, would reverse the IRA’s clean energy provisions, ban Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, add tougher work requirements for social programs like SNAP and enact the House Republicans’ HR 1 Energy Package and Regulatory Cut Act Raines.
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tennessee, is “leaning no” on the bill because he wants new work requirements to begin immediately instead of in 2025. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has promised to vote against the bill for the same reason.
Rep. Nancy Mays is not leaning on parts of the bill that strip solar-related clean energy subsidies, which have a large presence in her state.
McCarthy says the bill would save $4.5 trillion by capping spending at fiscal 2022 levels in 2024, then capping growth to 1 percent annually, in exchange for agreeing to raise the country’s $31.4 trillion borrowing limit by 1.5 trillion. dollar.
While McCarthy and the Republicans insist that Biden should sit down to negotiate budget cuts in exchange for an increase in the country’s borrowing limit, Biden insists that Republicans must pass the debt ceiling clean as they did under Donald Trump.
If the speaker can’t get his convention to pass the sprawling Growth Conservation Limit Act, Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will surely use this opportunity to insist that McCarthy will never be able to convince Republicans to agree to enough budget cuts and they must pass a resolution clean. debt ceiling bill.
