Gaetz asked McCarthy 'if he was behind the effort to get 'MAGA influencers' to attack him.'
— a mechanism to oust a speaker — if McCarthy backs a bipartisan stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown.
During the open mic portion of the conference meeting, Gaetz asked McCarthy "if he was behind the effort to get 'MAGA influencers' to attack him," one lawmaker told Axios.
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