Why House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is in trouble despite US avoiding shutdown

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is being targeted by members of the far-right caucus who have been d have been demanding deep spending cuts to government and no money for Ukraine. As Sky News’ James Matthews explained, “Kevin McCarthy has not been able to take anything forward with the support of the Republicans alone, so at the last minute he has said ‘OK I’m going to rely on Democrat support to push things forward.’” The Democratic-majority Senate then voted 88-9 to pass the measure to avoid the federal government’s fourth partial shutdown in a decade. Shortly after the House passed a bill late on Saturday averting a partial government shutdown, hardline Republican conservatives began targeting McCarthy’s role as speaker, saying he had scored a victory for the “Uniparty” of Washington. It’s a feature.” “If at this time next week Kevin McCarthy is still speaker of the House, it will be because Democrats bailed him out,” Gaetz said in an interview on ABC. “That’s nothing new,” McCarthy said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” A defiant House Speaker told his critics to ‘bring it on’.