The Border Crisis: When Democrats Meet Nancy Pelosi: A Demagogical Message for the American People and the Dialogue with Border Laws
He mused publicly, in jest, about wanting to hit her with the gavel used to keep order in the House.
The same week, her spokesman, Drew Hammill, savaged Mr. McCarthy for a news conference he had held on the steps of the Capitol to discuss “firing Nancy Pelosi.” He said that the minority leader’s only real accomplishment to date is typing up a radical right-wing wish list that sends a clear message to the American people that House Republicans have gone.
Pelosi told Mr. McCarthy that she did not know what he was talking about when he said that Democrats were not allowed to speak about the border crisis.
“The first thing you’ll see is a bill to control the border first,” McCarthy told CNN, when asked for specifics about his party’s immigration plans. You have to control the border. You have had more than 1 million people come across this year.
The Biden administration continues to rely on a Trump-era pandemic emergency rule, known as Title 42, that allows border authorities to turn migrants away at the US-Mexico border. In fiscal year 2022, amid mass migration in the Western hemisphere, US border encounters topped 2 million, according to US Customs and Border Protection data. Of those, more than 1 million were turned away under Title 42.
Sean McCarthy: Impeachment, Demography, and the Border Security Challenge in the Term of Reprieved Impeachment
McCarthy said that impeachment will not be used for political purposes. If something goes up to the occasion, it would be used at any other time.
McCarthy tried to maintain his support for Ukraine even though the GOP’s defense hawks vowed not to abandon the country in the midst of the war with Russia.
Again asked how he’ll handle members of his own party who spread dangerous conspiracy theories, McCarthy responded: “I’ve watched people on both sides of the aisle,” he said. If I become speaker, I will be the leader of the entire House. It will not be looking at just Republicans. We will be looking at the Democrats as well.
And McCarthy, who had to drop out of the speaker’s race in 2015 amid opposition from the far right House Freedom Caucus, told CNN he believes he’ll have the support this time around to secure the coveted speaker’s gavel – both from his conference and from former President Donald Trump.
“I think ‘Stay in Mexico’ you have to have right off the bat,” he said, referring to the controversial policy where migrants were forced to remain in Mexico while they wait for their immigration proceedings in the United States.
McCarthy said that he wanted to stop the flow of fentanyl from coming across the border, by attacking China first, as well as providing the resources necessary for border agents to do their jobs.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/politics/kevin-mccarthy-interview-border-security/index.html
Dem Dems, Dems and Minority Leaders: How Ruling the Debt Ceiling Does Not Prevent a Reionization of the House of Representatives
Most bills will be primarily messaging endeavors, unlikely to overcome the president’s veto or the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, though they would have to pass legislation to fund the government and raise the national borrowing limit at some point next year. McCarthy indicated Republicans will demand spending cuts in order to lift the debt ceiling, creating a fiscal mess that could lead to a disastrous debt default.
Wouldn’t you first tell a person that they should stop raising and all the time then give them a higher limit? He said that he did. “You shouldn’t just say, ‘Oh, I’m gonna let you keep spending money.’ No household should do that.
McCarthy acknowledged Republicans were willing to raise the debt ceiling under Trump, but said the calculus is different now because Democrats spent trillions of dollars under Biden.
When pressed on whether he’s willing to risk a default by using the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip, McCarthy insisted that wouldn’t happen: “People talk about risking it. You don’t risk a default.”
To that end, McCarthy has vowed to reinstate freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia to her committee assignments, despite being stripped of her assignments by Democrats last year for her inflammatory remarks.
McCarthy said that he did not have restrictions on which committees Greene could serve on, when asked if he had control over the assignments. The House Oversight Committee will play a big part in GOP investigations and is a seat that Ms. Greene wants to take.
She will have committees to serve on just like every other member. Members request different committees and as we go through the steering committee, we’ll look at it,” he said. “She can put through the committees she wants, just like any other member in our conference that gets elected.”
Greene is not the only member who has spouted conspiracy theories or incendiary rhetoric. Some Republicans have mocked the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/politics/kevin-mccarthy-interview-border-security/index.html
First Things Presidents Shouldn’t Tell them About The Nation Idiots: A Remark on a Matter of Leaders
“The first thing I’ll ask the president to do is not to call half the nation idiots or say things about them because they have a difference of opinion,” he said. I think leadership is important and I think it starts with the president. And it will start with the speaker as well.”