House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing a challenge to his leadership after he successfully averted a government shutdown by passing a stopgap spending bill over the weekend.
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., listens to a question as he talks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol after the House of Representatives passed a stopgap government funding bill to avert an immediate government shutdown, on Saturday. this week. He alleged on the House floor that McCarthy, R-Calif., cut "a side deal to bring Ukraine legislation to this floor with President Biden and House Democrats.
"They elected me to be speaker, so I made a decision. I thought it was best to keep the government open," he said. "There was no guarantee Democrats would vote for it. ... But at times like this, I need to make decisions." "I think there's a growing awareness that nobody can do this better than Kevin is doing it," he said.
Apart from Scalise, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., has also been brought up as a potential option, but Emmer has said he has no desire to challenge McCarthy. "McCarthy can't get to 218," Kuster told Punchbowl News, referring to the number of votes the Speaker needs. "At the end of the day, Jeffries is the Wizard of Oz — he is the one behind the curtain."Gaetz's attempts to challenge McCarthy's speakership have been met with pushback in the Republican conference.
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