lawmaker voted to bring a slew of Republican-messaging bills to the House floor. The move came after a tense week of negotiation between Mr. McCarthy and 11 conservatives allied with the House Freedom Caucus.initiatives from coming to the floor. The effort, which froze the House, was to show that Mr. McCarthy could not take conservative lawmakers’ votes for granted.
Conservatives also demanded that Mr. McCarthy back a $130 billion cut to government spending in the upcoming appropriations process. It remains unclear what else was agreed to in order to mollify the Freedom Caucus into dropping its legislation blockade. The Freedom Caucus nearly tanked Mr. McCarthy’s leadership bid earlier this year. In exchange for allowing Mr. McCarthy’s ascension, the group pushed through a rules package that decentralized the power of congressional leadership.
“This is an agreement that the speaker made directly,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar, California Democrat. “He took pains, remember, to get everybody else out of the room to get to a deal with just him and the president. And now he’s walking away from that deal.” “The Senate is going to mark up to the deal that was made,” Mr. Aguilar said. “House Republicans are going to completely make themselves irrelevant, make their members vote on these deep cuts, and have [a bill] that has no possibility of becoming law.”