All right, good evening from New York, I'm Chris Hayes.

We are watching right now debate wrap up at this hour as the House gets ready to vote

on the crucial debt ceiling deal.

That's the speaker of the House speaking right there.

Earlier today, the Republican proposal passed a key procedural vote, but it only passed

with the help from Democrats.

They did not have the votes to pass it on their own after 29 Republicans defected.

Now, the bill is being discussed on the floor.

It's expected to pass within the hour, despite that fairly significant Republican opposition.

This debt ceiling vote has been a crucial test for House Republicans.

From the moment they took control in January, the big question was how the Maga caucus,

a majority of whom let's remember, voted for Trump's coup on January 6th after the

sacking of the Capitol.

How are those folks going to actually govern, empowered with one of the two houses of

Congress, one half of one third of the federal government?

The Maga Nihilists began their House majority by demonstrating they were just willing

to burn the place down, but that's what it took.

A handful of Republican extremists tanked Kevin McCarthy's speaker should vote 14 times

without we have to say any real clear justification behind it, apart from dissatisfaction, dissatisfaction,

a desire to humiliate McCarthy and make his tenure more difficult.

So it really did feel as I was sitting in this chair watching that develop a few months

ago.

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