They Came. They Squawked. They Squandered Their Leverage.
SlateIn November, a characteristically impassioned Texas Rep. Chip Roy unloaded in a House floor speech about how lousy a job House Republicans were doing. One!” he shouted, inviting anybody hanging around listening to “come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides ‘Well, I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats.’ ” Roy is policy chair of the House Freedom Caucus, the group of a few dozen far-right Republicans whose rigid demands and relentless threats to oust GOP leadership have mired the House of Representatives in dysfunction. It was a modest reversal of the previous year’s budget agreement from when Democrats were in charge, and an acknowledgment of the 2022 “Red Ripple” midterms, during which Republicans flipped nine House seats on net. Related From Slate A Wild Day in the House Could Cost Speaker Mike Johnson His Job So, what Republicans got out of their Ukraine leverage was zero. The Freedom Caucus likes to believe that Republicans had enough leverage on Ukraine that they would ultimately get Democrats to swallow conservatives’ very strict border bill, H.R.
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