Rep. Mike Lawler called fellow GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz's announcement that he will be filing a motion to force House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his seat because he relied on votes from Democrats to pass a 45-day continuing resolution a 'diatribe of delusional thinking.'
Rep. Mike Lawler on Sunday called fellow GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz's announcement that he will be filing a motion to force House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his seat because he relied on votes from Democrats to pass a 45-day continuing resolution Saturday a "diatribe of delusional thinking."
"It's unsustainable," said Lawler. "But when you're trying to break the system, when you're trying to reform it, it takes time. We have been doing the work over the last few months, going line by line, budget bill by budget bill, finding ways to cut spending, and reform the system.""To shut down the government would inflict pain on the American people and it would hurt an already fragile economy because Bidenomics has failed," said Lawler.
"Just like he and some of my colleagues did during the past three weeks, they delayed the process by voting down the rules, violating our conference rules," he said. "They delayed the process by refusing to come to an agreement within the conference on a conservative CR that would have cut spending by 8% and enacted border security. They are the reason that we had to work together yesterday with House Democrats to pass a CR. That is not the fault of Kevin McCarthy.
Gaetz, he added, is "constantly talking about the need to follow regular order, [saying] Kevin McCarthy lied, he violated this, violated that."
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