McCarthy–Schumer Working Relationship Already Strained

News Analysis
Working relations between Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are already strained as the two leaders are set to take on key issues that will require bipartisan efforts, including upcoming negotiations on how to handle the U.S. national debt and the impending debt ceiling.
Both leaders have raised challenges on how the other branch of congress handles its agenda.
In a Jan. 12 op-ed, McCarthy touted several of the bills and resolutions that have already passed in the Republican-majority House since he was elected as its speaker. McCarthy wrote about how the House passed a bill to repeal funding for 87,000 new IRS agents, and passed a rules package that included the formation of the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government.”…}