Rep. Matt Gaetz is planning to attempt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the role this week after the House leader worked with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.
Rep. Matt Gaetz is planning to attempt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the role this week after the House leader worked with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.
I’m hoping the Republicans lose track of the counts, and Hakeem Jeffries becomes Speaker. If a few Reps miss a vote, or too many R’s vote “present”, there’s a chance it could happen.
That would be beautiful but couldn’t they just immediately oust him again? Seems very unlikely.
Well, they wouldn’t be in charge of the order of business, so there’s a chance that Jeffries, in his role as Speaker, could not recognize that motion.
Also, as the other guy pointed out, McCarthy being oustable by a single person was only a part of the dumb deal he agreed to the first time round. But getting a majority of R’s to oust Jeffries won’t be hard.
I doubt he would get a single Republican vote. Not recognizing a vote to oust him doesn’t seem workable for more than a very short period of time.
McCarthy getting it came with a clause that any single R can kick him out.
I think normally it's a certain percentage. And the "moderate" Rs that vote for it would know that they'd be in this same place again.
FWIW, McCarthy is well known in DC circles to not be an intelligent person.
Yes but I think it’s in the house rules currently. I could be mistaken on how that works.
But even if it happened by mistake, allowing a democratic speaker would be unthinkable for any republicans, even moderates of which there are very few.