Rep. Matt Gaetz just issued Laura Ingraham of Fox News an ultimatum: if Rep. Kevin McCarthy is chosen as speaker of the House, Rep. Matt Gaetz will retire from Congress! Will he be rewarded for this risky move? Time will only tell…
Rep. Matt Gaetz is organizing congressional Republicans to support an effort to prevent Kevin McCarthy from becoming speaker of the House, which may destabilize Washington and alter the composition of the US government.
“Will you be okay then if there’s ultimately a deal struck with moderate Democrats that give Democrats kind of co-control of the committees, you’re fine with that?” Ingraham asked.
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Gaetz replied, “No, absolutely not. That will not happen.”
“That could happen,” the Fox News host said.
“No, listen. I’m on the floor, Laura, and these 212 Democrats are going to vote for Hakeem Jeffries every single time,” Gaetz said. “He is a historic candidate for them. They are not going to cleave off under any circumstance. I assure you that. If Democrats join up to elect a moderate Republican, I will resign from the House of Representatives. That is how certain I am. I can assure your viewers that won’t happen.”
Gaetz revealed that he “wouldn’t be betting on my vote for Kevin McCarthy under almost any circumstance.”
“Kevin McCarthy is the masthead of the Lobby Corps. And I resent the extent to which Kevin McCarthy utilizes the lobbyists and the special interests to be able to dictate how political decisions are made, how policy decisions are made, and how leadership decisions are made.”
“Kevin McCarthy has been in the leadership for 14 years, and he has sold shares of himself to special interests, to political action committees. And so that’s why I don’t think he is an appropriate choice,” he continued.
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As Congress searches for a new leader, Representative Matt Gaetz has taken the lead in opposing Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s attempt to become House Speaker.
Congressman Matt Gaetz publicly raised the issue of his Republican colleague Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday. According to him, several Republican members of Congress protested against having McCarthy become speaker because they believe he is “beginning to unravel.” It seems like there will soon be a power war on Capitol Hill!
The House’s attempt to appoint a new speaker yesterday was unsuccessful as all three votes for Kevin McCarthy were cast against him. Despite President Trump and congressional Republicans strongly endorsing his bid for leadership, members of the GOP caucus were unable to agree on a successor amidst widespread doubt.
Gaetz said in a tweet that McCarthy had contacted a colleague indicating his willingness to “finance an eternal war.”
“McCarthy is losing it,” Gaetz tweeted. “He texted one of my colleagues who didn’t vote for him: “I am ready to fund an endless war” I’m assuming this is in addition to Ukraine.”
When Congressman Matt Gaetz announced Jim Jordan as his choice to succeed Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House on Tuesday, a political uproar broke out on the House Floor. There was a flurry on Capitol Hill after that dramatic move!
“Sometimes we have to do jobs that we don’t really want to do and sometimes we have to do jobs that we are called to do,” Gaetz said. “So my colleagues, I rise to nominate the most talented, hardest, working member of the Republican conference, who just gave a speech with more vision that we have ever heard from the alternative.”
“I’m nominating Jim, Jordan. Jim Jordan is humble, perhaps today humble to a fault. Maybe the right person for the job of Speaker of the House isn’t someone who wants it so bad. Maybe the right person for the job of Speaker of the House isn’t someone who has sold shares of themself for more than a decade to get it.”
