Kevin McCarthy’s speaker election struggles point toward a chaotic House year - Vox

The question is whether the new GOP speaker will be sufficiently politically deft to come up to the brink and actually pull his members back from it in this year's legislative battles — particularly over the debt ceiling, because of the risks of economic crisis there. Will he or she be able to eventually convince enough Republicans that, yes, the government does have to be funded, and the debt ceiling does have to be raised, and the Democratic Senate and President Biden aren't just going to meekly submit to ultimatums? 

If the new GOP proves too dysfunctional to accept this, we could be in for a dangerous showdown — one in which Biden may have to explore options for addressing the debt ceiling without congressional support at all...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/4/23537063/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-debt-ceiling