Rep. Matt Gaetz plans to push for Kevin McCarthy's ouster as House Speaker this week—leading McCarthy to tell him to 'bring it on.'
“nothing new,” adding: “I’ll survive. This is personal with Matt.” McCarthy also said Gaetz is “more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something.”a government shutdown by hours yesterday after McCarthy brought the bill to the House floor. The heavily Democrat-backed effort began in the House and continued into the Senate, which passed the last-minute stopgap measure that keeps the government funded for another 45 days and keeps federal employees paid for the time being.
“I believe that it’s up to the Republican conference to determine their own leadership and deal with their own problems,” Ocasio-Cortez told Tapper on. “But it’s not up to Democrats to save Republicans, from themselves especially.”McCarthy controls a razor-thin majority in the House, and he was elected speaker earlier this year only after making promises to hardliners like Gaetz.
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