Almost 10 months since a marathon series of votes to make him speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday faces losing his job. The House was poised to vote on a motion to vacate, filed by McCa…
Opening Day Of Donald Trump Civil Fraud Trial Gives Glimpse Of How Networks May Cover Camera-Less Criminal ProceedingsThe House was poised to vote on a motion to vacate, filed by McCarthy’s nemesis from the right, Rep.. The vote, expected to take place at about 1:30 p.m. ET, threatened to revive the spectable of January, when McCarthy endured through 15 votes before winning the speakership.
It was unclear whether McCarthy had the votes to table Gaetz’s effort, as the Florida congressman needs only a handful of lawmakers on his side given the GOP’s slim four-vote majority. Some Democrats could vote to help McCarthy, but Democrats appeared to be coalescing around a plan to remain unified against him.
Gaetz is filing the motion after McCarthy advanced a resolution on Saturday to fund the government for the next 45 days. McCarthy ultimately had to rely on Democratic votes for passage, and Gaetz has claimed that the speaker made a deal with President Joe Biden to also bring forward a measure for further assistance to Ukraine. “Clearly someone has been lied to,” Gaetz told reporters. He sat alone in the chamber, reading from his cell phone, in the half hour before the vote.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that “we encourage our Republican colleagues who claim to be traditional to break from the extremists, to end the chaos, end the dysfunction. … We are ready, willing and able to work with our Republican colleagues. But it is on them to join us to move the Congress and the country forward.
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