McCarthy plots new push to avoid shutdown but faces renewed resistance in ranks

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(CNN)—Speaker Kevin McCarthy, facing growing unrest in the GOP conference, is moving on a new plan to keep the government open for another month – but he is again encountering resistance from conservative hardliners who are threatening to derail the effort and oust him from his powerful perch atop the House.

With just days to go until the September 30 deadline, McCarthy briefed his conference on the new plan to keep the government open – paired with deeper spending cuts and new border security measures – all an attempt to win over wary members on his right flank who revolted over a previous proposal he had hoped to approve this week.

But with Democrats steadfastly opposed to deeper domestic spending cuts in the plan, McCarthy needs to rely on votes from within his own conference to get the measure through the narrowly divided chamber. That means he can only lose four Republican votes, but as many as seven GOP hardliners are threatening to vote against it.

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1. Republican leadership, has anybody seen republican leadership in the halls of congress ?

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2. And all this is for a month's extension. Of course, oppositionalists

must oppose or lose their reason for political existence. And in the Republican Party, eventual takeover by the farther-right extremists of an already far-right caucus is not actually crazy-impossible. In the senate the two parties are mostly allied in passing funding bills.

Axios: Some conservatives, while acknowledging the eventual resolution will likely be bipartisan, still say the composition of the bills matters greatly for McCarthy's standing within his conference.

"If it ends with 200 Democrats and 50 Republicans voting [for it] ... that's perilous," said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). "If it ends with 190 Republicans and 30 Democrats, that's not perilous."

"Anything the Senate cooks up is likely to be a lot more Democratic than Republican over here."