You’ve got to give Speaker McCarthy some credit for getting a bill through the Republican House, he has a very small majority and he’s come up with a bill that the Republicans are going to support,” said Mac McCorkle, Professor of the Practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Republican Richard Hudson who represents part of Cumberland County including Fort Bragg, praised the bill saying unspent COVID funds would be reclaimed, new funding for the IRS would be reversed as would green energy tax credits. “The problem for McCarthy and the Republicans to a certain extent is they haven’t been doing a real good job lately of seeming like the reasonable common-sense party.