GOP Leadership Struggles with Internal Divisions and Legislative Gridlock.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy says the conservative lawmakers who blocked a procedural vote on the House floor earlier this week have not outlined any specific demands. The dissenting lawmakers, including members of the House Freedom Caucus, have voiced anger over the debt limit deal struck between McCarthy and President Biden and accused GOP leadership of exacting revenge on one member who tried to block the bill from coming to the floor. McCarthy's thin majority in the House puts him in a precarious position, only being able to lose a handful of GOP votes to still pass a bill with no Democratic support.