Dan Goldman: McCarthy Is Negotiating with ‘Terrorists,’ ‘Placating the Extreme Wing’

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GOLDMAN: “I think that, you know, the Republicans are in such disarray right now that Kevin McCarthy is afraid at every turn that Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz is going to turn on him and that he’s essentially held hostage by the extreme fringe right-wing of his party. They are trying to renege on the debt ceiling bill that they agreed to and lower the top-line appropriations amount in all the appropriations bills. They are demanding outlandish and outrageous concessions that you just can’t do in divided government if you actually want to get anything done. And Kevin McCarthy, time after time after time, is negotiating with the terrorists, is placating the extreme wing, and that’s why we are now going to be focusing in September on impeachment when we’re about to have a government shutdown and we have a lot of really important legislation that we should be dealing with that they will not deal with."