The tension between House Republican leaders and the House Freedom Caucus resurfaced with the passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act on June 1.
The law resulted from negotiations between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Joe Biden over terms for raising the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. It passed by a wide margin in both the House and the Senate.
Yet the bill angered the most conservative members of the House, and some in the Senate, who believe the speaker sacrificed too much to close the deal.
Some members of the House Freedom Caucus mounted a spirited attempt to derail the legislation and nearly succeeded in killing it in committee….