House Republicans know where they want to lead the country, even if they don’t yet know who their actual leader will be.
As Washington was captivated by Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s struggles to become the next House speaker, lawmakers were chafing to get on to the business of passing bills, with a dynamic list of targets already teed up, from abortion to border security to China policy.
First up is a bill to claw back tens of billions of dollars from the IRS, reversing part of Democrats’ climate-spending legislation from last summer.
Then the GOP wants to puncture the “defund the police” movement, require the FBI to rat out illegal immigrants who try to buy guns, and grant legal protections to any infant born alive — including births that result from botched abortions.