Right now, we are, as I just said, to Chris Hay is watching the House of Representatives

where any moment the bill to avoid catastrophic default is about to face a vote on the House

floor.

The dynamic here, what you will see unfold tonight, that dynamic was set earlier today,

when Democrats had to bail out Republicans on a procedural vote that Republicans claimed

they could pass on their very own.

Prior to that vote, Politico reported, when asked if the GOP would need Democratic

help to pass this procedural measure, majority whip Tom Emmer said Republicans are the ones

who are running this place and Republicans will pass the bills and that's what we are

doing.

But in the end, Republicans did not have the votes to pass that measure on their own.

They needed 52 Democrats to bail them out.

Now both sides have faced opposition to voting for the steel.

Democrats say it does not go nearly far enough.

Progressives have argued that the bill's impact on the poor and the working class is too

severe.

But the character of that opposition is remarkably different.

Take for instance Marjorie Taylor Greene, the fringe conservative who has now landed

herself a place as one of Speaker McCarthy's top allies.

Today, Congresswoman Taylor Greene told reporters that she was leaning toward voting

yes on this bill, while also repeatedly describing the deal as an expletive sandwich, and

also taking that particular metaphor way further than she needed to.

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