Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., is seen after a vote in which Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., did not receive enough votes for Speaker of the House on Jan. 6, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., revealed on Sunday that he is intimates placed on the House Republican Steering Committee in skill for supporting Kevin McCarthy for House speaker.
Donalds supposed the new appointment during a Sunday appearance on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo.
His result followed an epic 15-ballot election for McCarthy to contract House speaker. To become speaker, McCarthy had to make concessions to a miniature group of hardliners who refused to support him pending he yielded to their demands.
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Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was elected House Speaker once 15 votes. Following his election Saturday morning, he said to other lawmakers about his plans for the future.
"I'm just just happy that it's all over with, and that we got something transformational and still for the American people," Donalds said.
The committee's extremity is to assign fellow Republicans to other House committees. Donalds noted that his appointment to the Steering Committee was an valuable step to having "more [Republican] voices on more committees."
Donalds was by a group of 20 hardline Republicans who refused to vote for McCarthy once he initially voted in his favor. He then switched to back Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, before his fellow Republicans nominated him for the role.
"Early on I gave Kevin the encourage of the doubt. But it came pretty quickly sure to me that we were getting nowhere. And so, at that present, it was saying, 'OK, how long is this touching to go? What's this going to play out like?'" Donalds said. "And so it was really near trying to make sure that we can get republic to the table in order to construct a framework that everybody in our conference can get behind."
US Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to US Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in the House Chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, 2023. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
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This week, McCarthy will face his next big test in governing a fractious, slim majority: passing a rules package to govern the House.
The drafting and approval of a set of laws is normally a fairly routine legislative affair, but in these times, it's the next showdown for the embattled McCarthy.
To contract speaker, and win over skeptics, McCarthy had to make concessions to a miniature group of hardliners who refused to support his ascension pending he yielded to their demands.
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Now those initiates — or at least some of them — are intimates put into writing to be voted on when lawmakers in backward this week for their first votes as the greatest party.
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