No matter who comes out on top of the GOP's House speaker debacle, they will be taking on a cursed job.
But withdrawing power from the committees has made committee assignments a less effective lever for GOP speakers to keep their members in line. The congressional earmarks that members used to be able to take back to their districts to show their victories were— with the tea party’s support — as part of Republicans’ war on big government spending, further cutting off a potential method of corralling wayward members.
— and there’s never a shortage of candidates willing to accuse an incumbent of insufficient conservative purity. Members who win seats are all too often those who promise combat over compromise and prioritize “owning the libs” over actually governing.. It is a position of leadership over the House as a whole, charged with keeping the wheels turning in the chamber most directly accountable to the people.
So far the deals McCarthy has been cutting have been with his own caucus’s far-right holdouts, including
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