Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz will get his vote on Tuesday to challenge the leadership of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. If successful, it would be the first time in U.S. history that House lawmakers voted their leader out.
“I’m an optimist. I put money on myself,” McCarthy said on CNBC.
“If he’s successful today, he’d be voting with all the Democrats. So you know what? It is what it is,” McCarthy said of Gaetz.
From Newsmax:
The leadership fight comes just days after Republican infighting took Washington to the brink of a partial government shutdown.
McCarthy’s party controls the chamber by a narrow 221-212 majority, and it would take as few as five Republican defections to threaten his hold on power if all Democrats vote against him.
Democrats have not said whether they will vote against McCarthy or extract concessions to keep him in power. Many say they view him as untrustworthy after he broke an agreement on spending with President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and are angered by his decision to green-light an impeachment investigation of the president.
“I’m interested in hearing what every single member of the House Democratic family has to say on this issue. And then we’ll come to a collective decision at the end,” House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries told MSNBC.
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