The GOP on Tuesday was considering expelling Rep. Matt Gaetz from its caucus.
Updated: 27 minutes agoRepresentative Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, speaks to members of the media outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.
“I’d love to have him out of the conference,” Rep. Don Bacon told reporters Tuesday. “. . . He shouldn’t be in the Republican Party.” And Rep. Derrick Van Orden , seething on the House steps after the vote, said: “I will always put the best interests of the United States of America and my constituents above my own personal feelings. And clearly Matt Gaetz can’t do that.”
But by then, McCarthy had struck deals with those hard-liners that hemmed him in. The most noteworthy concession: A single member could bring a “motion to vacate the chair,” or call for a vote to remove the speaker.Months of bad blood between McCarthy and Democrats help sink his speakershipGaetz threatened to wield that power for months, then made clear on Sept. 12 that he would seek to depose McCarthy, when he said the speaker was “out of compliance” with the deal he struck in January.
Over the weekend, that’s exactly what happened: McCarthy pushed through a deal to extend government funding into November at current spending levels but without billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine that Biden wanted. Again, Democrats backed the measure, which the Senate also adopted just ahead of a deadline for a shutdown.
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