Rep. Matt Gaetz has repeatedly threatened to try to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Now, he's finally prepared to stop threatening and start actually trying.
Rep. Matt Gaetz has spent much of the year at odds with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, but it was a few weeks ago when the Florida Republican took matters to a new level. Gaetz deliveredagainst his own party’s leader, insisting that the Californian was “out of compliance” with the promises McCarthy made his far-right flank in January.
Soon after, Gaetz told reporters that if McCarthy tried to prevent a government shutdown with a “clean” stop-gap spending package, GaetzRep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said Sunday that he intends to file a motion to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., this week after Congress voted to avert a shutdown hours before the deadline.during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I think we need to rip off the Band Aid. I think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy.
I won’t pretend to know what’s going to happen, but there’s no shortage of questions worth considering as the process unfolds.As of now, there’s no firm head-count, but Capitol Hill scuttlebutt suggests the number is between 5 and 10. For Gaetz and his allies, five is the floor to keep in mind: If every House Democrat were to vote against McCarthy, and they were joined by five House Republicans, McCarthy would lose his speaker’s gavel.A lot more than 10.
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