The Florida congressman's appointment to the House Steering Committee shows Kevin McCarthy's willingness to sanction the impulses of the party's far-right.
in a Sunday morning interview after he was asked about his decision not to support McCarthy."But it came pretty quickly clear to me that we were getting nowhere. And so, at that point, it was saying, 'OK, how long is this going to go? What's this going to play out like?' And so it was really about trying to make sure that we can get people to the table in order to construct a framework that everybody in our conference can get behind.
"The nature and culture of Washington D.C. is that the members are actually really separated from each other. They don't really get a chance to talk a lot and engage a lot unless they take specific interest," Donalds said Sunday.
Representative Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican is seen. Inset, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican. Donalds recently revealed McCarthy moved to place him on the Republican House Steering Committee.However, there are signs the conference is taking a rightward tilt.
That in itself, Demand Progress analyst Daniel Schuman says, represents a significant swing in how the committee once operated.
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