The fire right firebrand said he’d file a motion to oust Kevin McCarthy this week after the Republican leader relied on Democrats to avert a government shutdown.
| A moment of truth has arrived for House Republicans, and it isn’t surprising that Matt Gaetz, the far-right Florida congressman and booster of former President Donald Trump, is the man behind it.
Gaetz and McCarthy differ on whether it’s a clash of personalities or policy. Either way, Gaetz and a like-minded group of conservatives have won leverage thanks to McCarthy’s single-digit Republican majority in the House, and they haven’t been shy about using it. That has helped inflame tension between moderate and right-leaning lawmakers in what Democrats call a Republican civil war.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, hasn’t indicated whether he’ll encourage his party to oust the speaker. “He’s more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something,” the California Republican said on CBS’sGaetz, a former state representative and lawyer by trade, is no stranger to controversy. The House Committee on Ethics opened an investigation in 2021 into allegations that he may have engaged in sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and other offences. Gaetz has denied the allegations.
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