Matt Gaetz says he is ‘going down fighting’ after launching attempt to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy | Video
Florida Senator Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said that he is ‘going down fighting’ after launching an attempt to out House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “If this country’s going down, and if we’re losing the dollar, I’m going down fighting. And I don’t care if that means fighting Republicans, Democrats, the Uniparty, the leadership, the PACs, the lobbyists….
Florida Senator Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said that he is ‘going down fighting’ after launching an attempt to out House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
“If this country’s going down, and if we’re losing the dollar, I’m going down fighting. And I don’t care if that means fighting Republicans, Democrats, the Uniparty, the leadership, the PACs, the lobbyists. I’ve had it,” he told reporters.
“One thing I’m at peace with is when we stand here a week from now, I won’t own Kevin McCarthy anymore. He won’t belong to me. If the Democrats want to adopt him, they can adopt him,” he added.
Earlier this week he appeared on CNN and ABC News and said that he plans to have a vote this week to try and remove McCarthy as Speaker of the House.
Gaetz accused the House leader of working with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday. He said he intends to file a motion to vacate this week, which would force a vote on whether McCarthy will keep his job.
“Speaker McCarthy made an agreement with House conservatives in January and since then he’s been in brazen, repeated material breach of that agreement,” Gaetz said Sunday. “This agreement that he made with Democrats to really blow past a lot of the spending guardrails we set up is a last straw.”
On Monday he took to X, formerly known as Twitter to post a slew of tweets. “Some of my wonderful conservative friends won’t be voting to #VacateMcCarthy They worry it might disrupt legislative business. I would remind them that the full scope of legislative work on the floor yesterday was…… Renaming 2 Post Offices,” he wrote in one of the tweets.
Late on Monday, Gaetz entered a resolution to oust the Speaker from the House floor, setting in motion a snap vote scheduled to take place in the coming days.
