Four major battles facing Congress in 2023 – By Sahil Kapur and Scott Wong (NBC News) / Jan 2, 2023
From a fight for speaker and government shutdowns to debt ceiling increases and GOP investigations of the Biden administration, it promises to be a contentious year on the Hill.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is headed for another era of divided government in the new year, as Republicans are poised to claim control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3. Democrats will wield an expanded 51-seat Senate majority and control the presidency.
As recent decades have shown, split control of Congress can get messy in an age of rising partisanship and political acrimony. And the dynamics on the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will set the backdrop for the 2024 presidential election.
Here are four battles that loom on Capitol Hill this year.
A House leadership fight
Can Kevin McCarthy win — or hold on to — the speaker’s gavel?
McCarthy, R-Calif., is facing a rebellion from a band of conservative flame-throwers vowing to deny him the speakership Tuesday when the House takes its first floor vote of the new Congress.
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