House Democrats on Tuesday said they do not plan to save Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) when a vote on ousting him from the top spot hits the floor later in the day.

Emerging from a more than two-hour meeting in the Capitol, House Democrats said they will vote to oust McCarthy from the Speakership.

“We are following our leader and we are not saving Kevin McCarthy,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters.

Asked if a decision was made as a caucus not to support McCarthy, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) responded, “yes.”


This news follows McCarthy's statement that he won't give Dems anything to save his Speakership.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4235572-mccarthy-says-he-wont-give-democrats-anything-in-exchange-for-support-as-speaker/

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    The way the text here it phrased, it sounds like McCarthy wronged the Democrats by giving them nothing, and they're getting him back by letting him go. But the article makes it clear that they asked for nothing and he expects nothing from them, and respects that.

    No need to imply animosity and back biting between McCarthy and the Dems that isn't there.

    It's more like "you do your thing, we'll do our thing, and that's OK, no matter how it turns out."

    Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him.

    “They haven’t asked for anything. I’m not going to provide anything,” McCarthy said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

    “Hakeem runs his conference,” McCarthy said of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “He’s going to have a conference, and everybody’s going to talk about it, and I’m not going to put Hakeem in any position, and I respect whatever decision anybody makes.”

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      It's not that McCarthy hasn't asked anything of Dems, it's that he has worked hard not to include them, like all Republican speakers since Denny Hastert.

      This is viewed as normal, but it hasn't always been that way and perhaps shouldn't be that way. There's a universe where a Republican speaker facing a revolt from the right can gain Democratic allies by cooperating with them in some fashion or other.

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      It's more like Kevin has reneged on important deals like the debt ceiling and putting the decision to start impeachment hearings to a floor vote. If he doesn't keep his promises, why bother making deals with him?