Kevin McCarthy’s Debt-Limit Win Risks His Job as Speaker
- Speaker won over some conservatives, but job security in doubt
- ‘For damn sure’ McCarthy is underestimated, Republican says
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Five months ago, Kevin McCarthy looked unlikely to forge a bipartisan agreement to help avert a disastrous US default.
He had just overcome a humiliating 15 rounds of voting by making big concessions to conservatives to earn his gavel as House speaker, leaving him seemingly subjugated to the far right of his party.