Speaker McCarthy’s Next Trick: Averting a Government Shutdown

Democrats cry foul as speaker backs hard-right GOP dissidents on spending cuts

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reviewing spending in the appropriations process now getting under way. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s latest pledge to cut spending—intended to again mollify hard-right members of his party—has put Congress on a collision course with a potential government shutdown later this year.

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