McCarthy’s Next Step to Avoid a Shutdown

McCarthy’s Next Step to Avoid a Shutdown

Playbook: “We continue to hear chatter about a discharge petition or some other parliamentary maneuver that would sidestep the speaker’s control of the floor and set up a bipartisan CR vote.” “As embarrassing as it would be to McCarthy, some of his allies argue, it would at least spare him from being blamed by Gaetz & Co. for jamming the CR through the House.”