Don't believe the House GOP hype yet — it still doesn't have the votes to stop a shutdown

Don't believe the House GOP hype yet — it still doesn't have the votes to stop a shutdown

Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s newest bid to pass a GOP-only short-term spending plan, which he outlined for his members on Wednesday night, already looks to be on life support. It’s the latest sign of the herculean lift the Californian faces to get even a doomed party-line Republican bill through the House, where he can only afford to lose four votes with Democrats expected to unite against his latest effort. So far, McCarthy has at least nine “no” v…