“Good teams are always going to have differences of opinion,” Rep. Tom Emmer said. “If you don’t let them express that, you are never going to succeed.”
WASHINGTON — The way Republican Rep. Tom Emmer tells it, the lousiest job he ever had — he has a saltier way of describing it — was running the House Republican campaign committee.
When McCarthy failed to win the speaker’s race on the first votes, Emmer convened the holdouts in his still new Capitol office, so bare there are no pictures hanging on the walls. But he won his own internal GOP election to become the whip, brushing back two challengers. When it came time to broker the deal for McCarthy’s election, Emmer had to win over some of those same conservative holdouts.
Boehner, Ryan and previous debt ceilings One of the biggest challenges Emmer will face is rounding up the votes for the coming debt ceiling showdown. It’s a repeat from the battles Republicans waged last time they had the House majority, when then-Reps. John Boehner of Ohio and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin were the speakers during the Obama and Trump administrations. In those days the Republicans tried to curb federal spending, with some success, but also with failures that disappointed the right flank.
While some say they want to see all spending on the table for review, Emmer is among those who believe defense should largely be spared.
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