Rep. Matt Gaetz avoided giving any names when pressed on who he would want as the new House speaker if he succeeds in ousting Kevin McCarthy from the job.
Mr. Gaetz, who has been ramping up his threats to boost Mr. McCarthy, said he was too busy to discuss his Plan B for who wields the speaker’s gavel.
“For the last eight months, this House has been poorly led, and we own that. We have to do something about it,” Mr. Gaetz said on the House floor. “And you know what? My Democrat colleagues will have an opportunity to do.” Mr. Gaetz is among the arch-conservatives opposing a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown set to start at midnight Saturday. He said Mr. McCarthy is being put to the test by temporary spending measures that extend current spending, which was set last Congress when Democrats were in charge.
In the speaker election in January, Mr. Gaetz supported Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio for speaker. Mr. Jordan declined to run against Mr. McCarthy and now serves as chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
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