House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he is not worried about losing the speaker’s gavel as at least one conservative Republican is making veiled threats to bring a motion to vacate.
Fresh off a"busy, busy" recess, McCarthy is forced to deal with threats to his speakership from Rep. Matt Gaetz , who has taken to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, and implied that he might bring a motion to vacate.When asked if he was worried about losing his gavel following Gaetz’s posts, McCarthy said, “Not at all” and that the Florida Republican should “go ahead and do it.
It only takes a single member to call a motion to vacate, and with Republicans having a slim majority, it would only take a handful of them to join Democrats to oust him. “Hi, Eric. If I make a motion to remove Kevin, how [many] democrat votes can I count on? Asking for a friend,” Gaetz said in response to a post on X from Rep. Eric Swalwell , who had criticized the Florida Republican for making “empty threats” to remove McCarthy as speaker.Gaetz then asked Swalwell to act as a whip among his Democratic counterparts.
“Are all Democrats so willing, [Swalwell]? Will my NorCal twitter troll have the courage and efficacy to become my dem whip?? If I’ll work with [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] to ban congressional stock trading I’ll absolutely work with [Swalwell] to rid the House of ineffective leadership,” Gaetz said.
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