He’s just doing what Biden tells him.
I’ll remind everyone that Trump endorsed McCarthy for speaker.
That said, Ukraine funding has been withheld from this CR, so I don’t know what people were expecting to get with only a minuscule house majority. As I understand, they are tying any more Ukraine money to border enforcement money. That seems like a pretty solid leverage point and an offer that Democrats would be fools to refuse, which they probably would anyway. If so, we’ll at least get CR’s no more Ukraine funding, and we’ll get the political argument of saying that Democrats have openly refused to try to fix the border problem.