But in getting the April measure passed, House Republicans became the only body in Washington that had acted to raise the debt ceiling.
The White House, for its part, contends that the talks between Biden and McCarthy were not a negotiation on the debt ceiling.
"Speaker McCarthy's done an incredible job," said Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a member of the hardline Republican House Freedom Caucus.
"This is where the honeymoon can definitely end," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, a one-time aide to former House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Asked this week whether he expects to keep his speakership, McCarthy told a reporter: "What do you think?
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