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☆ US House Speaker McCarthy braces for likely new Republican rebellion
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Rebellious Republican Representative Matt Gaetz on Sunday pledged to launch a bid to oust McCarthy as House speaker, just nine months after he struggled to win the job amid challenges from Gaetz and other hardline conservative Republicans. No U.S. House speaker has ever been removed from this high office that puts the holder second in line for the presidency after the vice president. The Republican speaker and his leadership team are hoping to spend this week passing more individual spending bills to fund government programs in the new fiscal year that began on Sunday. They would fund federal agencies that run transportation, veterans, housing and agriculture programs that clash with the lower-spending priorities of Republican versions in the House. That funding was stripped out of the stopgap funding bill passed by Congress over the weekend amid Republican objections.

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☆ Matt Gaetz Begins Process to Oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Kristina Peterson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Matt Gaetz: ‘Biden’s Favorite Republican’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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“I have enough Republicans where at this point next week, one of two things will happen: Kevin McCarthy won’t be the speaker of the House or he’ll be the speaker of the House working at the pleasure of the Democrats," GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz told reporters after he filed the motion. Those threats escalated over the weekend after McCarthy relied on Democrats to provide the necessary votes to fund the government. But McCarthy has recently welcomed the effort to oust him and suggested it’s an opportunity to silence his critics once and for all. The motion Gaetz introduced is a privileged resolution, a designation that gives it priority over other measures. The next step is for House leaders to schedule a vote on the resolution within two legislative days.

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☆ Matt Gaetz seeks to oust Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a motion to vacate against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday. A motion to vacate allows a single lawmaker to force chamber-wide consideration of the speakership. Removal from the role requires a majority of the House to vote in favor. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementFlorida Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday introduced a motion to remove California Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House amid a broiling intraparty feud among Congressional Republicans.

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☆ Congress and Washington wonder if Biden and McCarthy cut secret Ukraine funding deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Christina Wilkie | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The suspicion is that Biden agreed to sign a stop-gap federal government funding deal that did not include Ukraine aid he wanted to provide, in exchange for McCarthy agreeing to hold a standalone vote on that aid later. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., demanded during an angry speech Monday targeting his fellow Republican McCarthy on the House floor. McCarthy on Monday denied that there was a secret plan for Ukraine funding. "There's an overwhelming number of Republicans and Democrats in both the House and the Senate who support Ukraine," Biden said at the White House. A standalone vote on emergency Ukraine funding would likely pass the House, but only with the help of Democratic votes.

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☆ Matt Gaetz seeks to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a motion to vacate against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday. AdvertisementAdvertisementRep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on Monday introduced a motion to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California as speaker of the House amid a broiling intraparty feud among congressional Republicans. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe feud between Gaetz and McCarthy has been building since McCarthy's election to the position in January, which took 15 painstaking votes amid heavy resistance from Gaetz and other GOP members. The speaker's fate could also be determined by Democrats, whose votes helped McCarthy pass a stop-gap spending bill to avert a government shutdown over the weekend. AdvertisementAdvertisementAccording to NBC, some Democrats are looking for political concessions from McCarthy, and it's unclear whether McCarthy has already started courting Democrats for their votes.

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☆ Rep. Matt Gaetz files motion to vacate aimed at removing Speaker McCarthy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Another government shutdown is looming. Here's what needs to happen so Americans don't face the consequences.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It will continue funding until November 17, at which point another bill is needed to avert a shutdown. The short-term resolution did not include Ukraine aid, a funding sticking point. "They said they were going to support Ukraine in a separate vote. By a vote of 335 to 91 — with 209 Democrats and 126 Republicans voting in favor — the short-term bill passed Congress. Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, the only Democrat who voted against the resolution, said he did so because it did not include Ukraine funding.

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☆ Republican blockade of Ukraine aid and Slovakia’s election play into Putin’s hands
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Fico anchored his campaign on his anti-US rhetoric, vows to stop sending weapons to Ukraine and a pledge to thwart Kyiv’s NATO ambitions. The GOP tide against Ukraine gathers strengthZelensky’s visit to Washington to shore up Ukraine aid last month looks prescient. At Republican campaign events, voters often voice antipathy to sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, and polls show rising public skepticism. Still, for now, there is a bipartisan Washington majority in favor of Ukraine aid, although the chaos in the GOP raises questions about how it will be delivered. So we’ve got to find a way that we can do this together.”But if McCarthy is toppled and replaced by a more radical speaker, Ukraine could run out of luck.

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☆ US Congress Debates Ukraine Aid as Pentagon Warns Money Running Low
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

Washington has sent the Kyiv government $113 billion in security, economic and humanitarian aid since Russia invaded in February 2022. A U.S. official said that, as of Monday, the Defense Department had $1.6 billion left to replace weapons sent to Ukraine, no funds left under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) and $5.4 billion worth of Presidential Drawdown Authority. But he, and some other Republicans in both the House and Senate, refused to include more aid for Ukraine in the measure. We'll have another package of aid soon to signal our support for the brave people of Ukraine," Jean-Pierre said. "Today, DoD has exhausted nearly all available security assistance funding for Ukraine," McCord wrote in the letter, dated Sept. 29 and expressing concern that the stopgap spending bill did not include security assistance for Ukraine.

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McCarthy has the support of most of his members for remaining speaker, but his conference has been riddled with infighting. If just a handful of those members joined with all Democrats, McCarthy would indeed be imperiled. It remains to be seen how many of those members – or others – might support a motion to oust McCarthy. So with a razor-thin GOP majority in the House, whether McCarthy keeps his gavel will almost certainly depend on Democrats. And adding to the troubles was McCarthy’s insistence on Sunday that Democrats were “willing to let government shutdown,” despite their support for the legislation that outnumbered Republicans’.

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CNN —Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday moved ahead in his attempt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the top House leadership post, offering a motion to vacate the chair on the House floor – a rare procedural move that can be used to force a vote to remove the speaker. A floor vote to oust McCarthy would require a majority to succeed. According to House precedent, a resolution to remove the speaker would be considered privileged, a designation that gives it priority over other issues. To force a vote, a member must go to the House floor and announce their intent to offer the resolution to remove the speaker – as Gaetz did. Gaetz also cited the possibility of the House holding votes on sending aid to Ukraine as another reason to oust him.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz formally sought to remove the House speaker on Monday evening, filing a motion to vacate that would force Kevin McCarthy from his post in what will be a historic clash within the chamber’s Republican caucus in the days to come. “It is becoming increasingly clear who the speaker of the House already works for, and it’s not the Republican conference,” the Florida Republican said. And though it only takes one lawmaker to bring up a vote to vacate the speaker, it would require a majority of voting lawmakers to succeed. In turn, they gained the power to bring up a motion to vacate the speaker – lowering the threshold to just a single lawmaker’s request. McCarthy has repeatedly brushed off the threats, touting his fight for speaker as an example of his resilience.

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☆ Rep. Matt Gaetz triggers vote to oust Kevin McCarthy from speaker's office
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Scott Wong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Defiant, McCarthy and his allies have lashed out at Gaetz, accusing the Florida Republican of seeking the limelight and holding a personal vendetta against the speaker. By filing a so-called "motion to vacate," Gaetz has now triggered a future floor vote on removing McCarthy as speaker, though it's unclear exactly when that vote might happen. The Gaetz resolution "declaring the Office of Speaker vacant" is privileged, meaning it takes precedence over other House business. Gaetz's motion now puts House Democrats in a political pickle given the GOP's razor-thin, 221-212 majority. Democrats will have to decide whether to vote with McCarthy foes to topple him as speaker, or side with McCarthy allies to bail him out.

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☆ Matt Gaetz Plans Vote to Oust Kevin McCarthy After Speaker Avoids Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Kristina Peterson | Lindsay Wise | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ US near-miss with government shutdown illustrates Washington dysfunction
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. narrowly dodged its fourth partial government shutdown in a decade on Sunday, but the past week exposed the depths of political dysfunction in Washington and particularly within the splintered House Republican caucus. “The dysfunction caucus at work,” Republican Representative Don Bacon told reporters earlier this month, after hardliners blocked consideration of a defense appropriations bill that finally passed on Thursday. He’s a charlatan,” Representative Mike Lawler, a centrist Republican from New York, said of Gaetz after the failed Republican stopgap vote. There are a lot of personalities at play here, and multiple strategic objectives,” Republican Representative Kat Cammack told reporters. “There’s this sort of strange woulda-coulda-shoulda -- appropriations should have just moved faster,” said Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw.

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☆ Republican House Speaker McCarthy faces ouster threat for avoiding shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 335-91 to adopt a 45-day stopgap measure hours before funding for federal agencies was set to expire. Republican Representative Andy Biggs, a leading hardliner, asked on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, who has openly threatened such action, made clear what it would take days before the Saturday vote. Republican Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, who co-chairs the bipartisan Problem Solvers' Caucus, said bipartisanship itself would be the real issue in any vote on McCarthy's future. Some Democrats have suggested they could support McCarthy if an ouster attempt occurred at a turbulent time.

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☆ Rep. Matt Gaetz says he will move to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ‘this week’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on border security, government funding, and other issues, on Friday, September 29, 2023. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on Sunday said he will aim to file a motion to force out House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week. McCarthy resorted to negotiating the deal with Democrats after struggling to rally the requisite votes from his fellow Republicans. That decision is already yielding political backlash from House Republicans like Gaetz who had threatened to oust him as speaker if he worked with the Democrats to get a deal done. Gaetz needs 218 votes in order for a motion to vacate McCarthy to pass.

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☆ Matt Gaetz, MAGA loyalist, agrees with Democrats: McCarthy 'lied' to Biden on budget deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has been vowing to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. On Sunday, Gaetz accused McCarthy of lying to both House conservatives and President Joe Biden. AdvertisementAdvertisementFlorida Republican Matt Gaetz says rank-and-file Democrats are totally right: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a liar. "[N]obody trusts Kevin McCarthy," Gaetz said. But in an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation, the House speaker said he wasn't worried about Gaetz's threat to his leadership.

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☆ Matt Gaetz Plans Vote to Oust McCarthy After Speaker Avoids Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Shutdown near-miss illustrates Washington dysfunction
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

REUTERS/Ken Cedeno Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. narrowly dodged its fourth partial government shutdown in a decade on Sunday, but the past week exposed the depths of political dysfunction in Washington and particularly within the splintered House Republican caucus. "The dysfunction caucus at work," Republican Representative Don Bacon told reporters earlier this month, after hardliners blocked consideration of a defense appropriations bill that finally passed on Thursday. He's a charlatan," Representative Mike Lawler, a centrist Republican from New York, said of Gaetz after the failed Republican stopgap vote. There are a lot of personalities at play here, and multiple strategic objectives," Republican Representative Kat Cammack told reporters. "There's this sort of strange woulda-coulda-shoulda -- appropriations should have just moved faster," said Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw.

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CNN —House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s allies are scrambling to head off a right-wing revolt to oust the California Republican from his job and turning to the constituency that now suddenly holds the cards: House Democrats. One Democratic lawmaker who supports ousting McCarthy told CNN, “I have no trust in, nor respect for, McCarthy. But House Democrats also acknowledge that they don’t know another Republican who can get the 218 votes needed to clinch the speakership. “My advice to my fellow Democrats is simple: Follow the leader,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper. But while Jeffries has maintained a more cordial relationship with McCarthy than his predecessor, there have been recent signs of strain.

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Washington CNN —President Joe Biden on Sunday urged House Republicans – particularly Speaker Kevin McCarthy – to keep their word on government funding and aid to Ukraine after he signed a bill that narrowly avoided a shutdown. Speaking from the White House, Biden lauded the deal that lawmakers reached and he signed into law just minutes before funding was set to expire at midnight on Sunday. He sought to assure Ukraine and US allies that American support is unwavering. “I hope my friends on the other side keep their word about support for Ukraine. They said they’re going to support Ukraine in a separate vote,” Biden said.

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Just hours before the government was set to shut down, lawmakers reached a funding deal. AdvertisementAdvertisementLawmakers in Congress miraculously managed to avoid a government shutdown, just three hours before the 12:01 a.m. deadline. AdvertisementAdvertisementNotably, the bill did not contain more funding for Ukraine, a key objection for some Republicans. The consequences of a shutdown would have been drastic for thousands of federal workers, along with Americans who rely on a range of federal programs. House Democrats said in the statement that they expect McCarthy to advance a bill to the House floor for an up-or-down vote on Ukraine funding.

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