McCarthy of the Republican Party says Biden’s spending will go “above my dead body”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday vowed to do everything he could to prevent Congress Democrats from approving the multimillion-dollar infrastructure and social spending plans backed by President Joe Biden.

But now that House Democrats seemed to have settled their differences and voted to move forward on those plans, it’s unclear what McCarthy can do.

“It will be on my corpse, because I will do everything in our power to stop it,” the Republican leader told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” when asked if he expected billions of spending to go through Congress. for September to September.

Pressed by what this opposition would entail, McCarthy suggested that two Conservative-leaning Senate Democrats, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, could “slow it down.”

He also confronted a group of moderate House Democrats who had previously expressed concerns about the $ 3.5 trillion budget plan, but who voted Tuesday night with the party to advance it.

“Before that, I thought it was possible to stop it,” McCarthy said earlier in the interview.

McCarthy accused Democrats of fully embracing socialism after Tuesday’s party vote. The centrists who “folded,” he said, “will not be re-elected.”

The statements come just a year after the midterm elections of 2022, when Democrats hope to hold on to their meager majorities in Congress and Republicans seek to regain control of the House.

McCarthy also reaffirmed his opposition to the Senate-approved infrastructure plan, which supports Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Asked if he could derail this $ 1 trillion bipartisan bill, McCarthy said, “I still don’t know, until the vote.”

McCarthy’s spokesmen did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for additional information about his future strategy.

The procedural motion, which passed 220-212 on Tuesday night in an extraordinary session convened during the August break, allows Democrats to write and approve the massive Republican-free spending bill.

It also includes an illicit commitment for the House, led by President Nancy Pelosi, D-California, to vote on the infrastructure bill before Sept. 27. This term was intended to appease the nine centrist Democrats who wanted to vote first on infrastructure. and then consider the partisan resolution of the budget.