'The House is paralyzed' after 'embarrassing defeat' for Kevin McCarthy

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) was hoping to avoid a federal government shutdown when, on Thursday, September 21, a vote on a defense bill was held — and a GOP vote he was hoping for defected.

CNN's John Berman, following the vote, didn't mince words about the "embarrassing defeat" McCarthy had suffered.

Berman declared, "He just lost a major vote on the House floor." And Berman's CNN colleague Melania Zanona stressed that McCarthy "did not see this coming."

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Zanona told Berman, "This is an embarrassing defeat for Kevin McCarthy and the leadership team. It is the second time that a procedural vote on a defense bill has failed on the House floor for this week. Usually, you don't see those things fail at all. They typically have party-line votes for these procedural votes. Typically, they do not put stuff on the floor if leadership thinks it's going to fail."

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