McCarthy says the House will vote on his removal as speaker

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“McCarthy’s decision to change the rules about who can propose to remove the speaker puts the fringe in charge of the House in terms of rulemaking,” said Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass. Neal said at the time that “once you seal the deal, you have to take the consequences.”

McCarthy said during a television interview on Tuesday that he didn’t need any help from the Democrats so she did not see any reason to help him.

” Kevin McCarthy is one of the most unprincipled, untrustworthy people I have ever encountered in my entire life, and I believe he does damage to this institution and our democracy,” said a moderate Democrat.

His comments followed a lengthy “open mic” meeting of House Democrats in the basement of the Capitol complex Tuesday. One by one, they all got up and had a minute to talk about what their caucus should do and one by one, they railed against Speaker McCarthy for his refusal to cross the aisle.

“We are ready, willing and able to work together with our Republican colleagues but it is on them to join us to move the Congress and the country forward,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.

McCarthy admitted he may not have enough Republican votes to stay speaker, but he didn’t think he would have to give up control of the house to do so.

Counting members turned into an intense project as a group of McCarthy’s critics sat in the back corner of the House floor with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., the member who set the revolt in motion. Across the room, McCarthy’s allies huddled with the speaker’s floor staff looking at notes and their phones.

McCarthy still appears to have the support of the majority of the 221 House Republicans, and some even tried to convince Gaetz not to move forward with the vote, despite their own frustrations with McCarthy, as NPR has reported.

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The House will then be forced to hold votes on a new speaker, though that could take time. Members will likely need to meet to discuss the path ahead. The members are ready for the process.

McCarthy told reporters in the Capitol that if the speaker were thrown out they would be in a bad place.

On Monday night, Gaetz filed a motion to vacate, the first step to forcing a vote to remove McCarthy as speaker. And McCarthy told reporters Tuesday that he will bring up the motion to vacate today, but it remains unclear how much support he has.

Gaetz has “personal things in his life that he has challenges with”, McCarthy told CNBC on Tuesday morning, in an accusation that accused Gaetz of harbouring a grudge over his refusal to quash a congressional ethics complaint against him.

Will I be removed if I joined with all the Democrats? That’s the question here,” he said. If you create a congress where four people are allowed to work with each other, how strong is the continuity of the government?

House Democrats agreed to vote against saving McCarthy in order to make it clear to voters that they didn’t want him in office.

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“There is reason after reason to just let Republicans deal with their own problems,” Jayapal said. “Let them wallow in their pigsty of incompetence and inability to govern.”

House Democrats aren’t officially taking a position. Some have suggested in recent days that they would be willing to help McCarthy — who directed an impeachment inquiry into President Biden just last month — but not without a cost.

Before Tuesday’s House meeting, Clark told Morning Edition that she was unaware of any concessions made by McCarthy.

She said Democrats should think about whether they want to make a deal with McCarthy, and that he haseroded any trust he had going forward.

Clark noted that the GOP infighting — which she described as a “full-scale civil war” — has an impact on “people at home who are worried about the GOP’s attacks on Social Security, on our public schools, on the freedom of reproductive rights in this country.”

“We are going to make that decision the way that we look at everything we do in the House: What is the best way to make progress for the American people?”