Speaker 1: Remember back in January when Kevin McCarthy was running for
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House. You might also remember the historic
Speaker 1: fifteen rounds of voting it took for McCarthy to secure
Speaker 1: the Speaker's gavel.
Speaker 2: You know, my father always told me, it's not how
Speaker 2: you start, it's how you finish, and now we need
Speaker 2: to finish strong for the American people.
Speaker 1: Each time he fell short, McCarthy bargained more and more
Speaker 1: away to a small but vocal minority led by the
Speaker 1: House Freedom Caucus. These members are the furthest to the
Speaker 1: right on social issues and government spending. They held McCarthy's
Speaker 1: speakership in their hands until he agreed to their concessions.
Speaker 3: Those of us who will not be voting for Kevin
Speaker 3: McCarthy today take no joy in this discomfort that this
Speaker 3: moment has brought. But if you want to drain the swamp,
Speaker 3: you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise.
Speaker 1: Now McCarthy's deal making has come back to bite him,
Speaker 1: and conservatives in the Freedom Caucus are creating headaches for
Speaker 1: both Republican moderates and Speaker McCarthy. I'm Craig Gordon in
Speaker 1: for West Ksova today on the big take who really
Speaker 1: controls the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy or the Freedom
Speaker 1: Caucus to give us more detail on just what's happening
Speaker 1: within the House GOP factions. I'm joined by Bloomberg's Congressional
Speaker 1: editor Megan Scully and House reporter Billy House. Megan, give
Speaker 1: me the big picture here, who are the key Republican
Speaker 1: players in the House digging in on the Freedom Caucus side,
Speaker 1: and who are the more centrist members they're buting heads with.
Speaker 4: McCarthy is getting it from both sides of his party,
Speaker 4: but as Billy has said recently, the House Freedom Caucus,
Speaker 4: which once worked as a forty vote block all in lockstep,
Speaker 4: now really has become more of a fractured entity where
Speaker 4: there's about ten who are fighting back against McCarthy and
Speaker 4: those who voted against his speakership all of those rounds
Speaker 4: back in January. But that's enough votes to really wreak
Speaker 4: havoc in House majority where McCarthy only enjoys really a
Speaker 4: five seat advantage over Democrats, but he also has an
Speaker 4: addition to the Freedom Caucus, he has these more pragmatic
Speaker 4: moderate Republicans who are not really loving all the votes
Speaker 4: that they're having to take on abortion and other social
Speaker 4: issues that the House Freedom Caucus is really forcing their
Speaker 4: hands on. So far, they haven't fought back, but we
Speaker 4: could see that change the closer we get to the election.
Speaker 1: Billy, from John Bainner to Paul Ryan. We have certainly
Speaker 1: seen descent in the ranks among GOP factions in the past,
Speaker 1: but it feels like this is reaching a different level
Speaker 1: of acrimony. Put this in perspective for us. You know
Speaker 1: how much trouble is Kevin McCarthy in right now.
Speaker 5: The Freedom Caucus actually emerged around late twenty fourteen twenty
Speaker 5: fifteen as a response to what they believed then Speaker
Speaker 5: Bayner's harsh treatment of some of the right wing members,
Speaker 5: trying to remove them from committees, also his manipulation of
Speaker 5: what was then the conservative group that was most prominent,
Speaker 5: the Republican Study Committee. They felt he was talking moderates
Speaker 5: into joining that group and distorting their elections. About thirty members,
Speaker 5: led by Mark Meadows, Mick Mulvaaney, both who ended up
Speaker 5: in the Trump White House, and current Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan,
Speaker 5: broke away and started their own group, and they created
Speaker 5: a lot of mischief for John Bayner, including Meadows filed
Speaker 5: ay and what has now been known as a motion
Speaker 5: to remove the speaker, but he never acted on that,
Speaker 5: but they created havoc with some votes for Bayner, so
Speaker 5: much so that he eventually stepped down as Speaker.
Speaker 6: It's become clear to me that this prolonged leadership turmoil
Speaker 6: would do irreparable harm to the institution. So this morning
Speaker 6: I informed my colleagues that I would resign from the
Speaker 6: speakership and resign from Congress at the end of October.
Speaker 5: The next Speaker, Paul Ryan, who had been a vice
Speaker 5: presidential candidate, had to kind of cowtow to this group
Speaker 5: even before getting their backing to become speaker, and it
Speaker 5: seemed almost immediately that Ryan hated the job. He felt
Speaker 5: diminished by having to placate this group at thirty and
Speaker 5: he never had a happy relationship with them. They blocked
Speaker 5: even his attempt to undo Obamacare, and they also at
Speaker 5: the time were fighting with Trump. But there came a
Speaker 5: relationship with Trump during his first impeachment when in many
Speaker 5: of these Meadows and others Freedom Caucus members were some
Speaker 5: of his biggest backers, and so they became a relationship there.
Speaker 5: This new group is different. Some of the original members
Speaker 5: are gone. Jim Jordan is still there, but they have
Speaker 5: something the previous versions never had a five vote swing
Speaker 5: in the House that they have the numbers to block
Speaker 5: on almost everything they choose to do. So they also
Speaker 5: have that motion to vacate the way to force another
Speaker 5: vote to remove the speaker, but they've kind of set
Speaker 5: that on the back burner. Realized they can just mess
Speaker 5: things up on the floor for Kevin McCarthy if he
Speaker 5: doesn't cave in on what they want to do, and
Speaker 5: so that's what they've been doing so far. They haven't
Speaker 5: really submarined anything because they've gotten McCarthy to keep making
Speaker 5: promises to get their votes here and there. But those
Speaker 5: promises are adding up, and on these spending bills that
Speaker 5: are coming up, they're going to be almost impossible to keep.
Speaker 1: So, Billy, you talk about the difficulties that Kevin McCarthy faces, Now,
Speaker 1: how much of this including on the dead ceiling. Did
Speaker 1: you know? Maybe he won the battle, but he's about
Speaker 1: to lose the war.
Speaker 5: It's kind of gravy for Kevin McCarthy, who tried to
Speaker 5: be speaker once before. And was blocked, and then he
Speaker 5: ran this time and was almost blocked. So he had
Speaker 5: to make a lot of promises and he became speaker barely,
Speaker 5: and he loves it. He spends the day walking around
Speaker 5: the Capitol, shaking hands with tourists, showing them where Abraham
Speaker 5: Lincoln sat. He has a great time. So on one level,
Speaker 5: you know, he's achieved what he wanted to be he's
Speaker 5: a speaker now. On a different level, sure, he's a
Speaker 5: political animal and he wants to stay speaker, and that's
Speaker 5: certainly true, and he's fought very hard to do so.
Speaker 5: He brags that he's one that the media wakes up
Speaker 5: every week and tells him he has a challenge that
Speaker 5: he can't meet, and he's met everyone so far. That's
Speaker 5: absolutely true. To achieve the agreement with Biden on the
Speaker 5: government spending limits and the deficit, he had to make promises.
Speaker 5: Then he had to make promises to get a rule
Speaker 5: passed to even do another bill, and he keeps making
Speaker 5: promises and they're piling up, and they're going to pile
Speaker 5: up on these spending bills. So on one hand, yeah,
Speaker 5: he's loving it he's speaker. On the other hand, he's
Speaker 5: got to know that clock's ticking perhaps, and he's not
Speaker 5: going to be able to solve everything on this particular
Speaker 5: battleground that's spending, and so the upshot is a potential
Speaker 5: government shut down, and he's still sort of whistling past
Speaker 5: the cemetery. But his promises are going to come do
Speaker 5: on this.
Speaker 1: So, Billy, you talked about the whole pile of promises
Speaker 1: that Kevin McCarthy has made in concessions he made to
Speaker 1: both win the speakership and to win some of these
Speaker 1: key votes. Tell us what some of the checks he's
Speaker 1: written that are going to come do here?
Speaker 5: Well, even the spending level on the depsit Reduction bill,
Speaker 5: he made a promise for two years on capping the spending,
Speaker 5: which Democrats helped pass but were never on board with really,
Speaker 5: and even some of the moderates in his own conference
Speaker 5: don't believe are doable. He's promised to go through certain
Speaker 5: procedures that involve a House Freedom Caucus members sitting on
Speaker 5: committees approving things before they go to the floor. He's
Speaker 5: placed Marjorie Taylor Green in fact, on a conference committee
Speaker 5: to hammer out a final agreement with the Senate on
Speaker 5: a defense authorization Bill.
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, of course, being one of the most
Speaker 1: conservative sort of House members there, someone who is in
Speaker 1: headline is quite a lot for her very conservative positions.
Speaker 1: Didn't he also essentially give them an easier way to
Speaker 1: fire him as speaker if they so choose.
Speaker 5: Down the road, was that motion to vacate that? Nancy
Speaker 5: Pelosi fearing such a thing that she became speaker again
Speaker 5: and immediately changed the rules to three to five members
Speaker 5: had to sign on on a motion to force a
Speaker 5: floor vote on whether a speaker can stand the job.
Speaker 5: She changed it back to five members now. McCarthy, in
Speaker 5: discussing how to become speaker with the right wingers, promised
Speaker 5: them that only one member could force a vote on that.
Speaker 5: The thing is, that's a promise that they haven't seized
Speaker 5: upon yet.
Speaker 1: We're not at that point.
Speaker 5: They seem to be getting more of what they want
Speaker 5: with a speaker like McCarthy than they would with trying
Speaker 5: to find a replacement.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we dive into the issues dividing
Speaker 1: Republicans on the Hill. Let's talk about some of the
Speaker 1: very specific issues at play here, a lot of which
Speaker 1: do have to do with the question of spending in
Speaker 1: the federal debt and the federal deficit megan. Everyone was
Speaker 1: kind of cheering the Infrastructure Plan when it went through
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago because it sent a lot
Speaker 1: of projects to House districts for both Republicans and Democrats.
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, House Republicans are proposing a
Speaker 1: new infrastructure spending limits that are far below what had
Speaker 1: been agreed upon before, would really cut deep into some
Speaker 1: of these popular projects. Talk to us a little bit
Speaker 1: about what they are trying to accomplish with that bill.
Speaker 4: So what we saw in the deal between McCarthy and
Speaker 4: with President Biden on the debt limit and suspending that
Speaker 4: for two years was an agreement to cut some spending,
Speaker 4: to cut domestic spending in particular, not as deep as
Speaker 4: these conservative Republicans, these ultra conservatives wanted to go. And
Speaker 4: now there's concern among this group of hardliners that not
Speaker 4: only did the bill not meet their expectations, but that
Speaker 4: there are efforts underway to undo these cuts or to
Speaker 4: get around these cuts, to be able to pad these
Speaker 4: bills with these homegrown projects that people have learned to love.
Speaker 4: It gets into the whole everything is pork right unless
Speaker 4: it's in your backyard. What these lawmakers are saying is
Speaker 4: these domestic programs, whether it be transportation or infrastructure programs
Speaker 4: or social programs, they want to see them get these
Speaker 4: deep cuts. They want to see them be targeted for
Speaker 4: deficit reduction. And they're not trusting that the bills as
Speaker 4: they come out of the appropriation's committees are doing that.
Speaker 1: Are there any signature projects that have become sort of
Speaker 1: the poster trials for this fight. It's kind of hard
Speaker 1: to tell. At this point.
Speaker 5: Not all the twelve annual spending bills have even been
Speaker 5: written yet or unveiled. What we do know is that
Speaker 5: the deficit reduction deal between McCarthy and the president capped
Speaker 5: the spending at about one point five trillion, and the
Speaker 5: Freedom Caucus and some other conservatives want to go below that,
Speaker 5: and so only the first couple of bills have trickled
Speaker 5: out most recently. Freedom Caucus members are saying they want
Speaker 5: to see all twelve bills first before they announce what
Speaker 5: they want, their game plan, their blueprint, and so that's
Speaker 5: where things stand now, but they are promising that they
Speaker 5: will fight for they see that the agreement of one
Speaker 5: point five trillion is a ceiling, so they're going to
Speaker 5: be fighting on that level, just the overall spending levels,
Speaker 5: but also on all these individual programs that they don't like.
Speaker 4: And what we're seeing a little bit is McCarthy dipping
Speaker 4: his toe in the water here with some bills that
Speaker 4: usually get broad bipartisan support, such as military construction and
Speaker 4: agriculture appropriations, but there's been even food fights on those bills.
Speaker 4: The big ones that we expect probably after the August
Speaker 4: recess is the Labor, Health, and Human Services Bill, where
Speaker 4: we see conservatives really wanting to make deep cuts, and
Speaker 4: also to education programs as well.
Speaker 1: Megan, We've talked a lot about domestic issues here, but
Speaker 1: certainly there's a very big foreign policy is you that's
Speaker 1: also kind of roiling the House Republican caucus, and that
Speaker 1: is the funding for the war in Ukraine. There's a
Speaker 1: small but hardy group that is trying to lock that
Speaker 1: and tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 4: Sure, well, you mentioned Marjorie Taylor Green earlier. She's certainly
Speaker 4: one of the hardline conservatives who don't want to be
Speaker 4: funding anymore weaponry to Ukraine.
Speaker 7: To be against funding for war is not pro Russia,
Speaker 7: it's pro America and pro Americans and pro our own
Speaker 7: American border.
Speaker 4: And this is causing some headaches, some more headaches for McCarthy.
Speaker 4: It's generally the same people that he's trying to keep
Speaker 4: happy to get these appropriations bills to the floor, So
Speaker 4: it's just another area where they could attempt to extract compromises. Now,
Speaker 4: if a Ukraine spending bill came to the floor on
Speaker 4: its own, it would likely get wide bipartisan support in
Speaker 4: both the House and the Senate. The issue, though, is
Speaker 4: angering this right flank that we keep talking about and
Speaker 4: needing to keep them in the fold to get all
Speaker 4: of his other legislative priorities through. So it's this delicate
Speaker 4: dance that he needs to continue to do on nearly
Speaker 4: every issue.
Speaker 1: Why does this group of pose further assistance to Ukraine?
Speaker 4: Several of them have talked about concerns about how Ukraine
Speaker 4: is spending the money, several have talked about our involvement
Speaker 4: in the war, and others have reached for their fiscal
Speaker 4: conservative routs, saying we shouldn't be spending these billions of
Speaker 4: dollars on weaponry for a country that is thousands of
Speaker 4: miles from here. Hearkening back to the basically America First
Speaker 4: roots of the Freedom Caucus.
Speaker 1: There's even now some talk about possibly expunging the record
Speaker 1: of one or both of Trump's impeachment votes in the House.
Speaker 1: Can you even expunge a vote like that?
Speaker 4: It's important to remember that while Trump was in I
Speaker 4: peached twice by the House, he was never convicted by
Speaker 4: the Senate, so he hasn't suffered any consequences. So essentially
Speaker 4: he's a twice impeached president, but that doesn't impede him from,
Speaker 4: for instance, as we're seeing now run for office again.
Speaker 4: This would certainly be the first time that we ever
Speaker 4: encountered this, and sure it's something that McCarthy can make
Speaker 4: up and send to the floor. You can't unimpeach the president.
Speaker 4: We all saw him get impeached not once but twice.
Speaker 4: But this would essentially be a asterix without really any teeth.
Speaker 1: Billy, speaking of impeachments speaking, McCarthy has talked about bringing
Speaker 1: an impeachment investigation against the sitting president. Joe Biden tell
Speaker 1: us what charges he is looking at and what concerns
Speaker 1: he wants to investigate.
Speaker 5: McCarthy himself hasn't been overly specific on charges, but His
Speaker 5: banter about that comes after several members have already put
Speaker 5: forward impeachment resolutions.
Speaker 8: We've only followed where the information has taken us, but
Speaker 8: it is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which
Speaker 8: provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of
Speaker 8: the knowledge and information needed.
Speaker 5: McCarthy has now embraced this sentiment by at least expressing
Speaker 5: that perhaps congressional impeachment inquiry is the apex of the
Speaker 5: congressional power to investigate, and maybe that's the way to
Speaker 5: go to look into things such as the Biden families
Speaker 5: overseas business interests, the involvement if there was any or
Speaker 5: knowledge of the then Vice president at that time, who benefited,
Speaker 5: whether the then Vice president lied about his knowledge of
Speaker 5: what his son, Hunter Biden was doing overseas. They go
Speaker 5: down to the investigation of Hunter Biden by the IRS,
Speaker 5: and whether there was Justice Department pressure to slow walk
Speaker 5: or alter the results. That now, an impeachment by the
Speaker 5: US House of Joe Biden might pacify the right wing
Speaker 5: members in non competitive districts like I said in Arizona, Texas, Indiana,
Speaker 5: but for moderate members such as in New York, just
Speaker 5: in the suburban New York City districts and in other
Speaker 5: places in New York, it would seem that an impeachment
Speaker 5: vote against Joe Biden would be really troublesome. So that's
Speaker 5: what macarthy's really got to contemplate and why he seems
Speaker 5: to vacillate on saying, yeah, that impeachment inquiry would be
Speaker 5: very the best way to do this, But he hasn't
Speaker 5: gone all the way to say we would impeach, So
Speaker 5: he's kind of like trying to play both sides on
Speaker 5: that one within his caucus.
Speaker 1: But you're pointing out a really important point here, which
Speaker 1: is that there's political divides inside the party, there's geographic
Speaker 1: device inside the party, and kem McCarthy's trying to stand
Speaker 1: astride all of it. Magan, I want to come back
Speaker 1: to one other bill that is getting some attention from
Speaker 1: these very conservative and that's known in the parlance as
Speaker 1: the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, essentially defense spending.
Speaker 1: Some of the members of the House passed a version
Speaker 1: of the bill that includes some restrictions on related to
Speaker 1: abortion in the military. Help us understand what they did there.
Speaker 4: So right now, due to abortion restrictions throughout the country,
Speaker 4: the military will pay and provide leave for women in
Speaker 4: the military who choose to seek an abortion. This would
Speaker 4: essentially roll that back, and it was a difficult vote
Speaker 4: for many of these Republicans who Billy just mentioned, including
Speaker 4: those in the Hudson Valley and north and west of
Speaker 4: there in New York and in other districts like in
Speaker 4: southern California where the voters aren't as driven by these
Speaker 4: social issues. But the amendment did make it through and
Speaker 4: it is included in the House version of the bill. Now,
Speaker 4: the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, has its own
Speaker 4: version of the measure, and the two chambers need to
Speaker 4: negotiate a final bill. And this bill touches basically every
Speaker 4: policy area of the Pentagon, So this is a very
Speaker 4: narrow issue in a much much broader bill. And the
Speaker 4: bill itself has been enacted every year for sixty plus years.
Speaker 4: It's really the only non spending bill to have that claim,
Speaker 4: and it gives the Armed Services committees a tremendous amount
Speaker 4: of oversight of the Pentagon. So there's a lot of
Speaker 4: push to get this bill done before the end of
Speaker 4: the year, but something like this abortion amendment could be
Speaker 4: enough to really gum up the works at the last
Speaker 4: minute and potentially sideline it. I think some of these
Speaker 4: moderate House Republicans who went along with this amendment and
Speaker 4: voted for the bill passage did so banking on the
Speaker 4: fact that Senate Democrats would never agree to including it
Speaker 4: in the final bill. The problem we're going to see, though,
Speaker 4: is as these votes pile up as abortion votes on
Speaker 4: other appropriations bills. And it's not just abortion. You're talking
Speaker 4: about transgender rights and book bands and all of the
Speaker 4: areas that the conservative right has targeted in their races
Speaker 4: that are really difficult votes for these pragmatic Republicans. You
Speaker 4: take one of these votes and maybe no one notices.
Speaker 4: You take six or seven of these votes, and it
Speaker 4: really starts to become a trend and potentially a problem
Speaker 4: in these districts.
Speaker 1: With a twenty twenty four election just around the corner,
Speaker 1: how are Americans feeling about the Republican infighting in Congress?
Speaker 1: That's after the break. Looking forward, Congress is about to
Speaker 1: go on a recess and they will be back in
Speaker 1: the fall. In September, we have a presidential election not
Speaker 1: that far over the horizon. So Billy, looking to the fall,
Speaker 1: all of these bills with all these contentious provisions in
Speaker 1: them that might survive the House and not survive the
Speaker 1: Senate could lead to a partial government shut down when
Speaker 1: the federal budget year ends on September thirtieth. How likely
Speaker 1: is that scenario if the House conservatives really do dig
Speaker 1: in on some of these provisions and vote no on
Speaker 1: a lot of things that again probably would not pass.
Speaker 1: Muster in the Senate.
Speaker 5: Looks very possible, especially since some of the same far
Speaker 5: right or conservative members forcing these issues also say they
Speaker 5: would not back a continuing resolution or a temporary spending bill. Again,
Speaker 5: McCarthy says, well, you guys have said I can't solve
Speaker 5: things before, and I've sold everything before, so he at
Speaker 5: least puts on a public happy face. Also, keep in
Speaker 5: mind that it is part of the deficit reduction agreement.
Speaker 5: If they go to a continuing resolution, which is an
Speaker 5: agreement to do a temporary extension of current funding levels
Speaker 5: for whatever period come next to April, they've agreed that
Speaker 5: as a result of that, there would be an additional
Speaker 5: one percent cut in funding. So things are looking very
Speaker 5: bleak right now, and it's hard to see how lawmakers
Speaker 5: going home for August is going to help speed up.
Speaker 1: A solution, Megan, Are there any other upcoming issues that
Speaker 1: are coming before Congress that may further show the divides
Speaker 1: inside the Republican Party.
Speaker 4: I think in September it's going to be focused primarily
Speaker 4: on appropriations. But one thing that we're going to be
Speaker 4: seeing as we get closer to the election is looking
Speaker 4: at primaries and whether some of these Republicans, particularly the moderates,
Speaker 4: are going to be primaried from the right, and whether
Speaker 4: the party itself is going to continue its evolution into
Speaker 4: a much more ultra conservative party focused on social issues.
Speaker 4: So that's something we're going to be certainly on the
Speaker 4: lookout for beyond September and going through you know, the
Speaker 4: primaries into twenty twenty four, and then certainly ahead of
Speaker 4: the election itself.
Speaker 1: Billy, we've talked a lot about the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1: Of course, we all know there's a presidential election, but
Speaker 1: all four hundred and thirty five members of the House
Speaker 1: Representatives will be on a ballot as well. Could these
Speaker 1: fights and this internal squabbling among the Republicans lead to
Speaker 1: losses on the Republican side, as some of these members
Speaker 1: that have taken tough votes that Megan was talking about
Speaker 1: now faced voters who really don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: abortion and relation to military policy, or could you see,
Speaker 1: you know, the Republicans be strengthened by the fact more
Speaker 1: conservative members come forward voters in certain districts like that.
Speaker 1: How do you see this playing out in terms of
Speaker 1: control of the House, which, as you say, is, you know,
Speaker 1: hangs on a balance of just five votes right now.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you how the strategists for both parties
Speaker 5: see it, and that's that these are very harmful potentially
Speaker 5: for those moderate Republicans and those moderate Republicans in important
Speaker 5: swing districts that could very well decide who controls the
Speaker 5: House majority in areas. For instance, in New York, there
Speaker 5: are six freshmen Republicans holding seats that Biden won in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty. Already, the d Triple C, which is essentially
Speaker 5: top Democratic leader Jefferson's political arm, has been attacking these
Speaker 5: six Republicans endlessly on every single vote almost that the
Speaker 5: House has taken that they could spin as far right
Speaker 5: or even extremists, and that will continue to occur and
Speaker 5: only rev up as the spinning bills raise more issues
Speaker 5: for these lawmakers. Those lawmakers and I did visit some
Speaker 5: of them in their districts are trying not to even
Speaker 5: mention some of these hot button issues. They're trying to
Speaker 5: focus on local constituent desires needs Once it's going to
Speaker 5: be hard, though, once the airwaves start heating up to
Speaker 5: totally ignore this. Recently, one of those lawmakers, Mike Lawler,
Speaker 5: for instance, was asked by a bunch of reporters at
Speaker 5: the Capitol his response to McCarthy's suggesting impeachment could occur,
Speaker 5: and he just walked by and didn't even acknowledge they
Speaker 5: were asking him. And that's kind of how he's been
Speaker 5: handling things back in the district. Constituents haven't been raising
Speaker 5: these issues as much, but again, the airwaves and the
Speaker 5: Democratic full court press on these issues hasn't really hit
Speaker 5: locally as much as they will.
Speaker 1: Billy House, Bloomberg's Congress reporter, and Megan Scully, Bloomber's Congress editor.
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