Kevin McCarthy not ready to abandon negotiated funding deal despite conservative opposition

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that he is not ready to abandon the short-term government funding deal negotiated by members of the House Freedom Caucus and Main Street Caucus, despite warnings from multiple conservative members that they will oppose the deal.

“Have they read it? One thing I always know, sometimes they haven’t read all the way through it,” McCarthy told CNN on Monday. “Let’s let them understand what it is and see where they are.”