Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Sunday said he will push to unseat House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) this week, vowing to make good on his threat after McCarthy backed a measure to prevent a government shutdown a day earlier that won broad bipartisan support. "I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy this week," Gaetz told CNN "State of the Union" anchor Jake Tapper. "I think we need to rip off the band-aid. I think we need to move on with leadership that's trustworthy." |
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Sunday brushed off Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.)'s threats to oust him from the Speakership, calling it something "personal" with the Florida lawmaker.
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"Well, my vote at the beginning of this term for Speaker of the House was for Hakeem Jefferies, and I do not intend on voting for a Republican Speaker of the House," Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union." |
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blasted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in a Sunday interview, arguing the latter was a self-promoter and that the media was wasting time giving him attention. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS, MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND AL WEAVER |
The House and Senate cleared a "clean" stopgap spending bill on Saturday, averting a government shutdown and capping off a chaotic three weeks in the Capitol that brought Washington hours away from a lapse in funding.
Here are the political winners and losers from the first quarter of the funding fight.
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Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-Fla.) push to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is a "waste of time," that will slow walk passing individual spending bills, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said Sunday. |
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) railed against Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-Fla.) attacks on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, calling the threats to oust the Speaker a "diatribe of delusional thinking." |
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday defended Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) after he pulled a fire alarm in a House Office Building before the government funding vote on Saturday. |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a 2024 presidential candidate, said on Sunday that he would not serve as President Trump's vice president if the former president asked him to be his running mate. |
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"The priority for me is America and our borders," McCarthy said when pressed during an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan about Ukraine. "Now, I support being able to make sure Ukraine has the weapons that they need, but I firmly support the border first. So we've got to find a way that we can do this together."
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"With all due respect to Donald Trump, we're not going to beat the Democrats by adopting Joe Biden's basement strategy," DeSantis said in an interview on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures." |
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