'I would not want to play blackjack against him,' said one senior House Democrat.
Share on email found himself in an unusual position for a minority leader last week: It was he, not the House speaker, who had the ultimate power to decide whether legislation came to the floor., the credit for passing it, and adversaries more divided than ever. In their telling, that total victory wasn't a sure thing.
One senior House Democrat told Axios: "It easily could have fallen apart ... He played the cards the way you'd want to play them."House Speaker Mike Johnson didn't have the votes on his own before saving the package on the floor. Rep. Don Beyer told Axios: "Hakeem has been very graceful. He's not purposefully thrown Johnson under the bus ... He's not been triumphant at all, he realizes how bad that would be for Mike Johnson."
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