Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz didn’t launch his promised bid to unseat House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday—but he made it clear that he plans to do so this week, the.
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz didn’t launch his promised bid to unseat House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday—but he made it clear that he plans to do so this week, the Hill reports. “Stay tuned,” the hardline conservative said in a speech on the House floor. Gaetz has vowed to trigger a vote on McCarthy’s leadership in retaliation for the speaker working with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown. In his speech Monday, Gaetz suggested McCarthy had cut a “secret side deal” with President Biden on aid for Ukraine, which was not included in the stopgap spending measure, the New York Times reports.
