It’ll be impossible to negotiate a compromise---dissenters aren’t specifying their demands.
Jake Swearingen 6/9, staff at Business Insider, “Kevin McCarthy's fragile control over the House GOP looks shaky as hardline Republicans go into open rebellion,” Business Insider, 6/9/23, https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/kevin-mccarthys-fragile-control-over-the-house-gop-looks-shaky-as-hardline-republicans-go-into-open-rebellion/amp_articleshow/100858191.cms
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced to send everyone packing on Wednesday evening, after roughly 11 members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus voted down a procedural measure on Tuesday that would have allowed several Republican bills to come to the floor for votes.
The Washington Post reports that dissenting lawmakers are angry over a deal McCarthy struck with President Biden last week to raise the debt ceiling, claiming Republicans "got rolled" in the compromise.
The stalemate resulted in the House adjourning until next Monday and scrapping the remainder of the week's votes.
Lawmakers from both parties expressed frustration with the situation, the Post reported.
"This is, in my opinion, political incontinence on our part. We are wetting ourselves, and we can't do anything about it," Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas told reporters on Wednesday night, per the Post.
McCarthy blamed the conservative rebels for not specifying their demands. "There are a few members who aren't actually in the Freedom Caucus, and I'm not quite sure what they're concerned about," McCarthy said, according to Fox News. "This is the difficulty, some of these members, they don't know what to ask for, there's numerous different things they're frustrated about."
"I don't think anybody understands what the demands are," Rep. Andrew Garbarino told Axios. "It's frustrating with the uncertainty — not knowing what's going on and not knowing what they want."