Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) plans to introduce a motion this week to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, in a dramatic escalation of the long-simmering tensions between the men.
Rep. Matt Gaetz with Kevin McCarthy on Jan. 6 during McCarthy's efforts to win the House speakership. With a Democratic-led Senate ready to fund the government in a bipartisan fashion and a Democratic president in the White House, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would ultimately have to make the determinative choice about whether to avert a government shutdown.
Biden says there’s ‘not much time’ to keep aid flowing to Ukraine and Congress must ‘stop the games’] McCarthy and Republicans have passed four appropriation bills thus far and plan to pass the remaining eight this month. While McCarthy did not give his conference 72 hours to review and vote on the stopgap bill to keep the government funded, his leadership team has followed that rule on a majority of bills passed this year.
Gaetz was one of six Republicans who never supported McCarthy in his fight to take the speaker’s gavel in January, at the beginning of the new congressional term. Those six members eventually voted “present” in the 15th round of voting, lowering the threshold needed for McCarthy’s victory. And Rep. Michael Lawler , one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the conference, told “This Week” that Gaetz’s decision is a “diatribe of delusional thinking.” Lawler noted that while Gaetz is complaining about how slowly the House has moved to advance appropriations bills, the Florida Republican himself is one of the reasons the process has been so drawn out.
The No. 2 person in the House Democratic Caucus, Rep. Katherine M. Clark , told members in a note Sunday to be ready for a motion to oust McCarthy as speaker “at any time, including Monday.” She did not indicate any preference in how to vote, adding that “we will have a Caucus wide discussion on how to address the motion to best meet the needs of the American people.”“Every time we all work together, he loses his mind,” Rep. Greg Landsman said in a statement.
“I think Kevin McCarthy is a very weak speaker,” she told CNN on Sunday. “He clearly has lost control of his caucus. . . . It’s not up to Democrats to save Republicans from themselves.” Any asks Jeffries makes of his party members to salvage McCarthy’s speakership would have to be viewed as a significant win by Democrats.
One idea that has been widely discussed among Democrats is a “motion to table” the provision under consideration, which would prevent them from having to play a direct role in voting for or against McCarthy for speaker.
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