Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Monday night filed a resolution to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after questioning if the House GOP leader cut a secret deal with the White House on Ukraine aid.
A motion to vacate the speakership is considered a privileged resolution, giving it priority over other issues. McCarthy has two legislative days to schedule the resolution for a vote, although there are procedural mechanisms the speaker and his supporters could delay the vote or even potentially block it.
A resolution to oust McCarthy would require a simple majority. Since a handful of House Republicans have signaled that they would vote yes on the motion, McCarthy may need support from Democrats to maintain his speakership. No House Speaker has ever been removed through a motion to vacate.
Gaetz’s decision to take a step toward ousting McCarthy came after the House passed a stopgap funding bill over the weekend that was supported by Democrats. The bill did not include the $24 billion in Ukraine aid that President Biden wanted, but he signed it into law anyway.
“What was the secret side deal on Ukraine?” Gaetz said on the House floor a few hours before filing the motion to vacate. McCarthy has denied he made a side deal, but President Biden said Sunday that he expects “the Speaker to keep his word and secure the passage of support for Ukraine at this critical moment.”
“Gaetz asked if McCarthy made a secret side deal with Biden on Ukraine aid”
POS Joey Biden said he did!!!
These two guys should fight a duel like Burr and Hamilton.
Neither of the two is a Hamilton.
neither of the two is even a Burr
These creatures in public life make the thing in Alien sympathetic.
, McCarthy may need support from Democrats to maintain his speakership.
The War Party is nothing if not bipartisan.
uncle sam is a joke
Wow!.. They actually gave him the boot!
I’ve been watching the pundits all evening but no mention of the Ukraine deal that sunk him. It was all because he kept the government opened and the nasty MAGA minions in Congress who hate America.
Gaetz was pretty specific in his warning:
Pass a continuing resolution with the Democrats and a handful of Republicans instead of the Republicans and a handful of Democrats, there will be a motion to vacate the chair. And the continuing resolution didn’t include Ukraine aid, in an attempt to appease Gaetz
It’s not that Ukraine aid “sunk” McCarthy, it’s that absence of Ukraine aid didn’t “save” McCarthy.
It was double crossing Gaetz with McCarthy’s secret protocol of a separate vote for Ukraine that did him in.
Gaetz said that if a continuing resolution was passed with Democratic support rather than the support of his GOP faction, he’d move to vacate the Speaker’s chair.
A continuing resolution was passed with Democratic support rather than the support of Gaetz’s GOP faction. He moved to vacate the Speaker’s chair.
Now all of a sudden, in some people’s imaginations, he did what he said he was going to do for some reason other than the one he’s been saying for weeks would constitute the reason for what he did.
“What was the secret side deal on Ukraine?” Gaetz said on the House floor a few hours before filing the motion to vacate.
Then what was the purpose of the subterfuge of removing the $$ for Ukraine only to sneak it in on a separate vote?
Might not have been the sole reason for his ouster but certainly a contribution.
Yes, Gaetz is against Ukraine funding.
And yes, he mentioned it before doing what he had already said he would do if McCarthy teamed up with Democrats to pass a continuing resolution without his group’s support.
But adding an additional argument for the position you’ve been taking for weeks without that argument does not make the additional argument the reason for the whole thing. Especially since that particular argument could have resulted in enough Democrats voting against the motion to vacate to have kept McCarthy in his position.
I would have LOVED to see McCarthy unseated over US support for Ukraine, but that’s just not what happened.
Then why strip the funding in the first place?.. You said it was to appease Gaetz. If you want to appease somebody they got to stay appeased. McCarthy denied the deal with Biden but Biden spilled the beans adding insult to injury.
It’s not for nothing that Geatz introduced the long knife after the Ukraine double cross became known and found it worthy of mention before he plunged it in.
It wasn’t an “additional argument”.
Well, OK — I won’t try to talk you out of believing that anymore.
I only believe what I read on Antiwar.com… You should check it out sometime.