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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and members of the rebellion that shut down the House for the past week emerged from a private meeting Monday evening with an agreement that will allow the chamber to function for at least this week. What McCarthy promised this time around isn’t any more clear than what he promised them privately back in January, when they finally allowed him to be speaker. What is clear is the speaker’s gavel is the extremists’ to extort any time they feel like it.
The truce is only temporary since they came out of the meeting not even agreeing on what they agreed to: Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz insists they have a new “power-sharing agreement” and that it will be in writing. McCarthy says otherwise.
