McCarthy credibility with both arms of the party is key to successfully landing the plane on funding.
Ellen Ioanes 6/11, covers breaking and general assignment news as the weekend reporter at Vox, previously worked at Business Insider covering the military and global conflicts, “The dysfunction among House Republicans is getting worse,” Vox, 6/11/23, https://www.vox.com/politics/23754641/mccarthy-gop-house-freedom-caucus
Whether McCarthy can manage the opposing factions of his party — and indeed, if he can keep his tenuous grip on the speakership — is unclear. That will have significant consequences in the long term if the pattern of obstruction continues, particularly when it comes to funding the government and avoiding a shutdown in the fall.
“I’ve got serious concerns as we go into the appropriations process about how antics like this taking down a rule can impact the ability for us to do our basic job of funding the government,” Womack told the New York Times Wednesday. “It was already going to be a pretty heavy lift, but it is a lift that is going to be made heavier if this is what we are going to be facing.”