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By Kate Riga | May 22, 2018 7:33 am
On Sunday, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney publicly floated the possibility that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) could step down before the midterms to trigger a speaker election, forcing Democrats to rally behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), according to a Monday Weekly Standard report.
Mulvaney reportedly made the comments to Fox News host Bret Baier in response to a question about Ryan stepping down to clear the way for his heir apparent, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). He was at a Colorado conference sponsored by the Weekly Standard at the time.
Ive talked with Kevin about this privately but not as much publicly, Mulvaney reportedly said. Wouldnt it be great to force a Democrat running in a tight race to have to put up or shut up about voting for Nancy Pelosi eight weeks before an election? Thats a really, really good vote for us to force if we can figure out how to do it.
According to the Standard and the Washington Post, a spokesperson for Mulvaney said that his comments were purely hypothetical and one for McCarthy said that the two men had never had any such conversations.
As the Post points out, Mulvaneys idea which comes at the cost of revealing the infighting in the Republican party, especially during the current immigration fracas would likely be ineffective anyway. Very few Democratic House incumbents who would have to take the vote before the midterms are in any risk of losing reelection in their districts.
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spanone
(135,846 posts)that's what republicans do.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Never ever ends when you are so rich that you can indulge negative change into infinity, just bc you're now bored or too comfortable. They have no worries we experience everyday. They've redistributed our wealth, dollar by dollar, gallon by gallon, payment by payment, and now we are starting to really feel and see the implications.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)why Mulvaney, who is not a member of Congress, should have anything to say about this matter.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)He's just muddying the waters even more. He knows a huge shitstorm is coming, and he's trying to do everything he can to ease the fallout.
Me.
(35,454 posts)The Dems aren't in charge the Cons are so there will be no vote for speaker until after the midterms and Mulvaney doesn't have a say about any of it.