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Let's talk about how McCarthy can fix the House....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Let's talk about how McCarthy can fix the House....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again.

0:03.0

So today we are going to talk about the US House of Representatives,

0:08.0

the need for a short-term budget for the United States and McCarthy and how McCarthy is

0:17.0

facing a problem that has basically been an issue for him the entire time and how maybe

0:28.0

this time he can actually handle it. Okay so the U.S. needs a short-term budget, a stopgap. Why? Because the long-term

0:39.8

process, well it broke down. Why? Because while McCarthy is Speaker of the House, he

0:46.6

doesn't really have a whole lot of influence. He can't develop a consensus.

0:51.8

So... He can't develop a consensus.

0:53.0

So the process does not function well,

0:58.0

so they need a short-term solution.

1:02.0

There are divisions within the Republican Party. We've talked

1:06.0

about it recently when it came to Ukraine. The far-right faction of the Republican Party, the furthest right faction of the Republican Party,

1:19.0

they've unveiled a list of demands and said if this if we don't get what we want

1:26.0

we're not going to vote for this short-term budget. Okay. now this is the exact dynamic that has led to McCarthy having, let's be polite, a less than effective period as speaker.

1:47.0

How does this process normally work? What would normally happen?

1:52.0

The House, well it puts up their version, they're a Republican controlled.

1:57.0

The Senate puts up their version.

1:59.0

They're currently controlled by the Democratic Party.

2:02.0

And then the two versions get like kind of

2:04.4

worked out. That's the normal process. So no matter what comes out of the House

2:10.2

it has to make it through the Democratic Party anyway. So if you have a faction of the

2:16.9

Republican Party who is demanding a bunch of things that, let's be honest, they're

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