How the far right could remove McCarthy and why his fate could be in Democrats' hands
At least one House Republican, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, is publicly threatening to offer a resolution to try to remove the speaker. Here's how that procedural motion would work.
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has been threatening for weeks to start the procedural motions to try to remove Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.
"The one thing I agree with my Democrat colleagues on is that for the last eight months this House has been poorly led and we own that and we have to do something about it," Gaetz said on the floor earlier this week. "And you know what? My Democrat colleagues will have an opportunity to do something about that, too. And we will see if they bail out our failed speaker."
Gaetz is one of a few hard-line Republicans who have tied McCarthy's
