'Ignorant and Arrogant': Republicans Worry the House Budget Chair Could Doom Reconciliation

[Celerity]

“He is all over the place and doesn’t understand what the fuck he’s doing,” one senior GOP aide said of Jodey Arrington.

https://www.notus.org/congress/ignorant-and-arrogant-republicans-fume-budget-chair-jodey-arrington-cuts


Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington speaks with reporters after a meeting in one of the House Office Buildings. Alex Brandon/AP

Near the beginning of his reign as speaker, Kevin McCarthy famously told colleagues he had “no confidence” in House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington. More than half a dozen people told The New York Times in April 2023 that McCarthy viewed Arrington as “incompetent.” And the bad blood festered between McCarthy and the Texas Republican for the entirety of McCarthy’s speakership.

Now, as Republicans place almost all of their hopes of a legislative agenda under Donald Trump on the budget reconciliation process — a process where Arrington will play an immediate and key role — more GOP sources are raising concerns about the budget committee chair.

Once again, more than half a dozen Republican sources told NOTUS that Arrington had become a problem for Republican leaders, sowing confusion among the GOP conference and complicating the reconciliation process with his push for substantial spending cuts.

As one House Republican member told NOTUS, granted anonymity to discuss Arrington’s leadership on reconciliation, “We’re so fucked.”

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[LuvLoogie]

1. I don't believe it.

It will be a swift kill of the last lifelines.

[maxsolomon]

2. One can only hope.

None of them seem particularly bright.