{"id":577650,"date":"2023-06-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mcconnell-mccarthy-finally-jell-with-debt-limit-fight\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T10:00:00","slug":"mcconnell-mccarthy-finally-jell-with-debt-limit-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mcconnell-mccarthy-finally-jell-with-debt-limit-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"#McConnell, McCarthy finally jell with debt limit fight\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/McCarthyMcConnell_051321_AP-EvanVucci.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The relationship between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) jelled this month as they worked together on a debt ceiling deal.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell played an instrumental role as adviser to McCarthy and President Biden during months of stalemate, when the president refused to negotiate directly with the Speaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The veteran Kentucky deal-maker helped break the impasse when he called Biden directly after a May 9 meeting of the top four congressional leaders and informed the president bluntly that he needed to cut a deal with McCarthy, according to a person familiar with the conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of back-channel communication, and I think what Speaker McCarthy asked for and what he got was the support from the Republicans over here, which produced some leverage. Every time Biden said he wasn\u2019t going to negotiate or it was going to be clean debt ceiling or nothing, the fact that [Senate Republicans] also said \u2018no debt ceiling\u2019 strengthened his hand,\u201d said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to McConnell\u2019s leadership team. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy also won plaudits from McConnell and other GOP senators by winning passage in April of a GOP plan to raise the debt ceiling and cut $4.8 trillion from the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very pleasantly surprised because we saw the Speaker\u2019s election, and it wasn\u2019t exactly a well-oiled machine,\u201d said Cornyn, referring to the 15 votes McCarthy needed to win election as House Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s struggles prompted worries in the Senate that he would have a tough time passing legislation. Those doubts were a major factor in the decision by some GOP senators to support the $1.7 trillion omnibus package McConnell negotiated with Biden\u00a0and congressional Democrats\u00a0at the end of 2022. Senators feared McCarthy wouldn\u2019t be able to move spending bills if they got punted into this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lack of trust was so severe that McCarthy met with Senate Republicans in the Senate\u2019s famed Mansfield Room on Dec. 21 to plead with them to have faith in his ability to lead. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHe talked about how we need to work better together than we have in the past,\u201d then-Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) told reporters after the meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell played a major role in unifying the Senate GOP conference behind McCarthy as their lead negotiator on the debt limit, despite those doubts.<\/p>\n<p>After Biden invited McCarthy, McConnell,\u00a0Senate Majority Leader Chuck\u00a0Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.)\u00a0and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) to the White House for a meeting that made little progress, McConnell called the president to deliver a blunt message. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>He told Biden he needed to \u201cshrink the room\u201d and had to work with McCarthy directly, according to an Associated Press report that was confirmed by a person familiar with the conversation. He made it clear he would not\u00a0intervene\u00a0to\u00a0hash out a last-minute deal like he did in 2011. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn said House passage of the GOP debt-limit plan\u00a0caught Biden off guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he was able to keep his troops together, I think that stunned Biden folks because they thought [House Republicans] were going to collapse and be unsuccessful,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Senate Republicans and GOP aides believe the r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ort that McCarthy and McConnell developed will pay dividends going forward as they tackle other tough issues, like avoiding a government shutdown and providing more military and economic aid for Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist who advised McConnell\u2019s political campaigns, said the teamwork developed during the debt limit fight was \u201cquite important and shows the strategic awareness of both men.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role he played was an adviser to both Biden and McCarthy and the advice was very simple, and he had been giving it publicly: These two guys are going to have to cut a deal,\u201d Jennings said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMcConnell was the clear-eyed person here. \u2026 I think this was a great moment for Republican Party unity,\u201d he added. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell for years was the top Republican in Washington, but now he is ceding more of the spotlight to McCarthy, who had little leverage when he was in the House minority.<\/p>\n<p>The two split publicly over last year\u2019s omnibus spending package, which McConnell backed as a win for the Defense Department. McCarthy opposed it and even asked Senate Republicans to block it to give the incoming House GOP majority a chance to renegotiate the spending levels. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Aides said they met regularly throughout 2021 and 2022, but McConnell and McCarthy rarely appeared together in public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each leader has a very different relationship with former President Donald Trump. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell excoriated Trump on the Senate floor after his 2021 impeachment trial for fanning unsubstantiated claims that Biden won the 2020 presidential election because of widespread fraud. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>He said the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was spurred by \u201cthe growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole\u201d that Trump \u201ckept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, by contrast, joined a majority of the House Republican conference in voting on Jan. 6 to sustain objections to the certification of the 2020 election. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They also split over a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package Biden signed into law in November 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell hailed the law as a major win for his home state, which is set to receive more than $2.2 billion for its transportation needs, while McCarthy whipped his House GOP colleagues to oppose it. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while McConnell voted for a bipartisan bill to address gun violence after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and a bipartisan bill to invest tens of billions of dollars in the domestic semi-conductor manufacturing industry, McCarthy voted against both of them. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy panned the Chips and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Act as a \u201c$280 billion blank check\u201d to the semiconductor industry. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those votes fueled concerns among Senate Republicans about McCarthy\u2019s willingness to stand up to conservatives in his conference. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked about those doubts, Jennings observed: \u201cThe House Republicans are a diverse and rowdy bunch.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere there questions about how they would all end up jelling and working together? Sure. That\u2019s natural,\u201d he said. \u201cI think there was some basic wondering. \u2026 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to couch it as, \u2018Oh everybody thought McCarthy was weak or whatever.\u2019 I think that\u2019s what the punditry was.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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