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McCarthy Defeats GOP Hard-Liners as House OKs Debt Ceiling Deal
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0:22Now PlayingFive months ago, Kevin McCarthy looked unlikely to forge a bipartisan agreement to help avert a disastrous US default. He had just overcome a humiliating 15 rounds of voting by making big concessions to conservatives to earn his gavel as House speaker, leaving him seemingly subjugated to the far right of his party.
On Wednesday, McCarthy won over just enough of those hard-liners — even as some of them threatened to oust him. But it was a close call getting to this stage and depended on the vote of one rigid libertarian to even get the bill to the floor.
It ultimately passed 314-117. McCarthy persuaded more than two thirds of his party but there was still one problem: more Democrats backed it than Republicans, a fact conservative critics will use to argue the speaker made a bad deal.
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