Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, suggested some Democrats would be open to a “50-50” power-sharing to save McCarty’s speakership.
Representative Ilhan Omar laid out on Friday what Democrats would require of their GOP counterparts to save Kevin McCarthy’s speakership as a government shutdown looms.
Congress faces an end-of-the-day deadline to pass legislation that would fund the federal government through the next fiscal year to avert a government shutdown, which would have wide-ranging effects for millions of Americans, including the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who would be furloughed. House Speaker McCarthy has struggled to strike a deal that would both appease the GOP conference’s most conservative members—who have threatened to file a motion to vacate his speakership if he strikes a deal with Democrats—while also passing the Senate, increasing the likelihood of a shutdown.
Republicans’ legislative showdown has fueled questions about whether Democrats could potentially leverage the shutdown threat to secure concessions from McCarthy in bipartisan appropriations legislation, in exchange for helping protect the California Republican’s position if conservative hardliners file a threat to his speakership.
