President Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy are touting their compromise agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, but is this deal really a win for McCarthy? The Bakersfield Republican faces simmering anger from the most conservative members of the House, and they could try to oust him from the Speakership as a result.

This is the stiffest test yet of the new Speaker’s leadership. He barely got elected Speaker, as you may recall, it took 15 ballots for him to get enough votes, in the longest election for Speaker since the 1860s. And he had to make a lot of concessions just to win the job. Now the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus of his party is spitting mad over the concessions he made to President Biden to avoid a government default.

McCarthy got a lot of what he was looking for, including cuts in spending and making more people who receive what we used to call food stamps, the SNAP program, have to meet minimum work requirements in order to qualify for that food assistance. But the conservative wing of the GOP wanted deeper cuts in the budget, and feel that McCarthy gave in too much to Biden and the Democrats to secure a deal. They vow to vote against it, and there could even be a vote of no confidence in the Speaker.

For more on this, KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern discussed with KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart and Megan Goldsby