{"id":2053491,"date":"2023-10-03T07:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-allies-pile-on-charlatan-gaetz-over-motion-to-vacate-vote\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:34:53","slug":"mccarthy-allies-pile-on-charlatan-gaetz-over-motion-to-vacate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-allies-pile-on-charlatan-gaetz-over-motion-to-vacate-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy allies slam Gaetz as &#8216;charlatan&#8217; for vote motion."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmccarthy-allies-pile-on-charlatan-gaetz-over-motion-to-vacate-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2053491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Allies of Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) portray Rep. Matt Gaetz as a self-serving obstacle to his own party as the Florida Republican attempts to oust the speaker.<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz has been threatening\u2062 for months to call a vote of no confidence, claiming McCarthy has &#8220;breached&#8221; the agreement he negotiated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-eyes-appropriations-process-to-defund-trump-prosecutions\/\" title=\"House Republican seeks to defund Trump prosecutions through appropriations process.\">hard-line\u200c conservatives<\/a> in January to win the gavel.\u200d He\u200d finally\u200b pulled \u2062the trigger on \u2062Monday, two \u200bdays after\u200c the House passed a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown with \u200dthe help\u200d of Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>DEMOCRACY DERBY: HOW THE KENTUCKY\u200d GOVERNOR&#8217;S RACE COULD SERVE AS A SPRINGBOARD INTO 2028<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz framed the bill, which\u200d will fund the government for 45 days while House Republicans work through a \u200bseries of conservative spending \u2062measures, as a betrayal \u2014 although a majority of his conference voted for it, so did nearly all Democrats.\u200c However,\u200c allies \u200bof McCarthy say it is Gaetz who is conspiring with Democrats in his\u200b effort to depose the speaker.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz&#8217;s voice is a distinct minority \u200dwithin his conference, \u200bbut he and a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-eyes-on-swing-vote-massie-as-house-panel-takes-up-debt-ceiling-bill\/\" title=\"Massie is the swing vote as House panel discusses debt ceiling bill.\">conservative hard-liners<\/a> have outsize leverage given McCarthy&#8217;s four-seat majority in the chamber. He needs the help of just four other\u200d Republicans to topple \u200cMcCarthy, assuming all Democrats vote for his ouster.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Democrats could bail McCarthy out, extending him just enough votes to cancel out\u2064 a \u200cconservative mutiny, but \u200ddoing so would require concessions on everything from Ukraine funding \u2064to the \u2063impeachment inquiry into President\u200d Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz has taunted McCarthy over that prospect, saying if he survives\u2064 the \u200dno-confidence vote, he&#8217;ll be &#8220;serving at the pleasure of the Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yet McCarthy allies make the opposite case: that any effort to oust the speaker, who \u2062enjoys \u2062overwhelming support from his conference, \u2063would create the striking visual of Gaetz siding with Democrats in opposition\u200c to his Republican colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s clear that Matt Gaetz is \u2063trying to undermine the Republican\u2062 majority and the speaker for his own personal and \u200bpolitical purposes,\u201d said Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who represents a district won by Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u200c think the fact\u2064 that he would\u2064 even entertain the\u200b idea of working with the &#8216;Squad&#8217; and progressive Democrats to undermine the House majority speaks volumes,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz spoke with influential Democrats including Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) as he gauged support for \u200da \u2062motion to vacate,\u2063 according to Politico. Allies even accuse him \u2063of offering Democrats a say in \u200dwho gets subpoenaed\u2063 in House Republicans&#8217; impeachment investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz has categorically denied those claims. &#8220;Absolutely not,&#8221; he said on Sunday when asked if he&#8217;d cut a deal with Democrats. &#8220;And I \u200cdon&#8217;t think that any Republicans that\u200d share my view on Speaker McCarthy would cut deals with Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But the insinuation that Gaetz does \u2064not have \u200bthe best interests of his conference \u2062at heart\u200b is \u200dcentral to the attempt\u2063 by McCarthy allies to marginalize him as a motion to vacate fight unfolds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz insists his crusade is about keeping McCarthy accountable, yet\u2063 his critics say it&#8217;s personal, repeatedly citing the House Ethics Committee investigation into him. That investigation, focused on allegations of sexual misconduct that Gaetz denies, predates McCarthy&#8217;s speakership, but McCarthy suggests that Gaetz is so\u200c militantly against him because he has not intervened to shut it down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz, for his \u2063part, dismisses the idea that he faults McCarthy. He is, however, fundraising off reports that colleagues want to use the findings of that investigation \u200dto boot \u200dhim from Congress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The bad blood is nothing new. Gaetz famously called McCarthy a squatter for occupying the speaker&#8217;s office before he locked down the gavel. And at\u2063 the height of tensions that \u200dJanuary, McCarthy ally Mike Rogers (R-AL) appeared to lunge at Gaetz after the 14th round of voting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>McCarthy \u2064until now has taken a &#8220;if \u2064you can&#8217;t beat them, join them&#8221; approach to governance. He&#8217;s steered his conference to the\u200b right, promising deep spending cuts \u200cand a hard line on issues including the border. His decision to lower the threshold for\u200b a no-confidence vote to a single member \u200dis partly why he&#8217;s in his current predicament.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Conservatives, infuriated by the deal McCarthy cut with Biden in the spring to raise the debt ceiling, do not trust that he will follow through on his promises and have taken \u200cever more aggressive steps to ensure his compliance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yet McCarthy has responded in kind in recent weeks. He&#8217;s dared Gaetz to file the motion and, at\u2062 great personal risk to his speakership, scrapped a more conservative stopgap \u200bmeasure that fell apart after\u2064 21 Republicans voted against it. Instead, he brought to the floor a largely &#8220;clean&#8221; measure\u2064 that Democrats could get behind\u200b on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Following the \u2063decision to file a motion to vacate, which tees \u200bup a vote that must occur within the next two legislative days, McCarthy responded with three words: &#8220;Bring it on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaetz \u200dsays McCarthy is just playing &#8220;shutdown politics,&#8221; attempting to move \u200cthe\u200c goalposts until lawmakers feel compelled to pass \u2062a bloated omnibus bill\u2062 before leaving town for Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But McCarthy allies lay blame\u200d directly\u2062 at Gaetz&#8217;s feet, arguing his tactics are\u2062 getting in the way of the very conservative agenda\u200b he&#8217;s\u200c been tasked with pursuing. Among those tactics are the votes he helped tank\u200b as the \u200bHouse took\u200b up its annual spending \u200dbills.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the distractions and theatrics that are going on are actually resulting in worse outcomes that are actually contrary to Republican objectives,&#8221; said Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), one of McCarthy&#8217;s top negotiators \u2062in\u200d the\u200d debt ceiling fight. &#8220;And so, I think it&#8217;s really \u2064important to stay focused on facts, stay focused on outcomes, and not the actual\u2064 theatrics that we&#8217;re that we&#8217;re seeing go down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The big question is whether McCarthy can convince \u200chis right flank that he,\u2063 not Gaetz, is worth following through the fight. The well \u200dof suspicion and distrust runs\u2064 deep for McCarthy, whom his critics view as a political chameleon. At least five lawmakers were in favor of or\u2063 inclined to support Gaetz&#8217;s no-confidence vote as of Monday night.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yet Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), a McCarthy ally and Republican centrist, judged that the move\u2062 would backfire on Gaetz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I \u200cthink Mr. Gaetz is making\u2064 a massive strategic miscalculation,&#8221; he said.\u2062 &#8220;It seems to me \u200bthat \u2064more than anything, there has been a rally \u200daround the leader from \u200bwithin the\u2063 conference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And at\u2062 least some hard-liners, including Freedom Caucus members Chip Roy (R-TX) and Byron \u200dDonalds \u200d(R-FL), want to give McCarthy the breathing room to get through the appropriations \u2062process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the \u200dspeaker deserves the ability to finish this \u200cyear\u2019s process, through\u200b the appropriations process, \u200dthrough the battle of funding government, through the Ukraine debate and border, and to \u2063honor the commitments he&#8217;s made,\u201d\u2063 Roy, the policy chairman of \u200cthe caucus, told Fox \u200dNews&#8217;s Sean Hannity \u200bon Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>McCarthy \u2064plans to\u200d pass all 12 appropriations bills by the new government funding deadline of Nov.\u200c 17.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to finish that out like we&#8217;re supposed to\u200b do. This is what the time clock allows us to do,&#8221; McCarthy told reporters on Monday. &#8220;And we&#8217;re focused\u200b on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-ignores-threat-to-vacate-chair-as-clock-begins-on-45-day-funding-measure\/\" title=\"McCarthy disregards chair's potential abandonment as clock ticks on 45-day funding bill.\">eliminating wasteful spending<\/a>, getting the &#8216;wokeism&#8217; out, but most importantly,\u200c securing our border \u2014 that is key.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Standing in the way \u200dof delivering on the promises\u200d to his right flank are Democrats, who control\u2063 the\u2064 Senate and White House. They have already rejected the House&#8217;s spending bills, which are being marked up below the levels agreed to in the debt ceiling \u2064compromise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2063What is the \u2064main accusation made against \u2064Gaetz by\u2064 McCarthy&#8217;s allies?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  D animosity runs \u200ddeep within \u2062the Republican \u2062party, and the \u200dattempt by Florida Representative Matt Gaetz to oust House Speaker\u200d Kevin McCarthy has further\u200d exposed the divisions \u2064among conservatives. Allies of McCarthy have portrayed Gaetz as a\u2062 self-serving obstacle to his own party, \u2063accusing \u2062him of conspiring with Democrats\u200b in his effort to remove\u200d the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz has been \u2063threatening for months to call a vote of no confidence against McCarthy,\u2063 claiming \u2064that the speaker\u2064 has &#8220;breached&#8221; the \u2062agreement he \u200cnegotiated with\u200b hard-line conservatives in January to secure his position. On Monday, Gaetz finally followed through with his\u200c threat, two days after \u200dthe \u200cHouse\u2063 passed a stopgap bill to avoid\u2064 a government shutdown,\u2062 with the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Although the majority \u2062of the conference, including Gaetz\u200d himself, voted in favor of the\u200d bill, Gaetz\u2064 framed\u200d it as \u200ca betrayal, citing the involvement of Democrats. McCarthy&#8217;s allies argue \u2063that it\u200d is Gaetz \u2063who \u200bis \u200dconspiring\u200c with Democrats to depose the speaker. Gaetz&#8217;s \u2064voice \u200bmay be \u2063a minority within his conference, \u200cbut he and \u200bhis group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-allies-pile-on-charlatan-gaetz-over-motion-to-vacate-vote\/\" title=\"McCarthy allies slam Gaetz as 'charlatan' for vote motion.\">conservative hard-liners hold significant leverage \u2062due<\/a> to McCarthy&#8217;s slim majority in the chamber. \u2064Gaetz \u2063only needs the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s allies are painting Rep. Matt Gaetz as a hindrance to his own party, as Gaetz tries to remove McCarthy as speaker. 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