(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . GOP denials over ‘three-page addendum’ with McCarthy’s Freedom Caucus deals ring hollow [1] ['Daily Kos Staff', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-12 There’s also that CNN report of a “document flying around K Street listing out all the alleged McCarthy concessions.” The GOP Whip Tom Emmer (MI) implicitly confirmed its existence by telling CNN it’s not entirely accurate. Rules Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) told Axios, “I’m sure it exists, because I read about it from you guys [in the press] all the time. It has to be out there.” He might have been trying for sarcastic, but Axios says Cole also suggested it hasn’t been provided to all GOP members. Someone who echoes that is Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA). “I don’t know if everybody has [received a copy],” said Calvert, and he told Axios that he personally was reviewing it. “It” might not exist, if by “it” we’re specifically saying “a three-page addendum,” but there is definitely paper out there documenting McCarthy’s capitulations. It’s not the “mirage” the Politico headline suggests. McCarthy and “allies insist that no back-room promises were made to land his gavel after 15 frenetic ballots, that no plum committee spots, precise spending cuts, or debt limit strategy were guaranteed in a quid pro quo,” Politico says. They quote Rep. David Joyce (R-OH), who says, “There’s all these people talking about a document that doesn’t exist.” And there are the plum committee assignments that were handed out Wednesday, six of them to various members of the Freedom Caucus who were among the holdouts during the first 14 votes: Rep. Byron Donalds (FL) is now on the House Financial Services Committee along with freshman Andy Ogles (TN); Reps. Michael Cloud (R-TX), and Andrew Clyde (GA) got coveted Appropriations seats; Rep. Andy Harris (MD) netted an appropriations subcommittee gavel, making him one of the “cardinals,” the 12 who hold the purse strings for every federal agency. Oh, and Donalds is also now on the influential Republican Steering Committee, he told Fox News, “as Speaker McCarthy’s designee.” McCarthy also promised to put what might be the worst tax bill ever on the House floor this session, something Republican leaders have refused to do for over 20 years. Because it’s a really stupid idea. “That was part of the negotiation. The 20 conservatives who were holding out, one of the things that they wanted was to see it come to the floor for a vote,” Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) said. Everyone knows the deals were made because the people who were on the receiving end are crowing about it. Pretending otherwise is par for the course with the GOP leadership. Happy New Year! Daily Kos’ Joan McCarter is on the show today to talk about the wild garbage fire that was the Republican speaker of the House vote. Kerry and Markos also break down what this onionskin-thin conservative majority can and cannot do in the coming year, as well as what the Democratic representatives can do to make Kevin McCarthy’s life just that much tougher. x Embedded Content RELATED STORIES [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/12/2146898/-There-doesn-t-have-to-be-a-three-page-document-to-prove-McCarthy-gave-the-farm-away-to-be-speaker Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/