Hilarious to me that the complaint is he worked with Democrats to avoid a shutdown, so naturally they remove him… by working with Democrats…
Hahaha… that’s a level of irony way beyond the capability of most Republicans to understand.
“Prior to McCarthy, no House speaker had ever been ousted through a motion to vacate.”
So apparently McCarthy was a trailblazer in being voted out of the job as Speaker.
Prior to McCarthy, the threshold to hold a vote to remove was 1/2 of one party or the other.
McCarthy’s concession to become speaker was to reduce that from 1/2 a party to one, single, member.
Hang on, that means McCarthy himself can keep voting to remove Gaetz? This could get even more hilarious.
Yes, if the rule isn’t removed, McCarthy (or anyone, really!) could start this all over again.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Tuesday morning, McCarthy, a Republican from California, asked Congress to vote on a motion to vacate him as House speaker.
One of the concessions involved McCarthy agreeing to allow a single member of the House to file the motion that could remove him at any time if enough votes were cast.
Gaetz previously threatened McCarthy while urging the speaker to take a stronger stance against certain issues, such as in negotiations to prevent a government shutdown and impeaching President Joe Biden.
However, the seven Republicans who joined Gaetz on Tuesday afternoon to remove McCarthy were: Ken Buck, Andy Biggs, Tim Burchett, Eli Crane, Bob Good, Nancy Mace and Matt Rosendale.
Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina will be speaker pro temp until a new one is elected.
McCarthy was confident ahead of the vote but said that he refused to work with his Democrat colleagues to save his job.
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