McCarthy faces a threat to oust him as speaker. Here's how that could work | CNN Politics
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The impending showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding represents a significant leadership test for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The road ahead is rocky as the speaker faces tough vote math, major challenges and the potential threat of a conservative revolt against his speakership.

Turns out constantly capitulating to the far right doesn’t earn you any loyalty from them – who’d have guessed? /s

    • DarkGamer@kbin.social
      22·
      10 months ago

      And give up all their supposed values doing so. Can’t be the “law and order” party while supporting protecting criminals from consequences; cops were killed as a result of their failed insurrection.

      • kandoh@reddthat.com
        6·
        10 months ago

        It’s been amazing watching them abandon free trade, national security, and capitalist healthcare from their list of values all based around opposition to ‘the current thing’.

  • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
    46·
    10 months ago

    What’s funny is there is no one that can get enough votes to be speaker. The inmates are running the asylum and doing a terrific job!

    • Nougat@kbin.social
      271·
      10 months ago

      There were fifteen votes just to get him seated as Speaker. Go ahead, put him out and start over.

      • athos77@kbin.social
        191·
        10 months ago

        15 rounds of voting. (For a moment, my brain was interpreting that as “had 15 extra votes”, but that didn’t make sense.)

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    Isn’t it weird how the right did that Qanon thing, pretending to be worried about “groomers”, and here we are with Groomer Gaetz making threats and demands of their so-called “Speaker”.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    10 months ago

    There’s no actual requirement that the Speaker be a member of the House. Maybe they should just nominate Trump already. Or Alex Jones.

    Maybe Matt Gaetz should nominate Nestor.

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
    101·
    10 months ago

    IIRC it takes a majority vote of the House to remove him and the Freedom Caucus doesn’t have anywhere near the necessary votes to pull it off.

    • pezhore@lemmy.ml
      13·
      10 months ago

      Doesn’t matter to a certain extent. They voted how many hundreds of times to get rid of the ACA? Republicans (especially the far right) don’t give a shit about actually succeeding - they just want to go home to their districts and show they “stood up” to the anti-Trump Rinos.

      I’m just happy that literally every other problem facing Americans have been solved - otherwise this would be a really bad waste of time! /s

      • geekworking@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Don’t you know that all of the real problems facing the country are caused by democrats, illegal aliens, rainbows, drag queens, abortion, books, and wokeness. Attacking the windmills to slay these bogeyman is how you fix everything. /s

    • svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
      7·
      10 months ago

      The Dems might join the Freedom Caucus. Removing McCarthy as Speaker may be the only thing those two groups can agree on.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The impending showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding represents a significant leadership test for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

    The road ahead is rocky as the speaker faces tough vote math, major challenges and the potential threat of a conservative revolt against his speakership.

    House Republicans control only a narrow majority, a dynamic that has left McCarthy with little room to maneuver and has given hardline conservatives outsized influence to exert pressure over the speaker.

    On Tuesday, Gaetz outlined a series of demands, including calling for passage of individual spending bills and not a short-term stopgap measure to fund the government, as he threatened a push to remove the speaker.

    In practical terms, a motion to vacate the chair takes the form of a resolution to remove the speaker by declaring the speakership to be vacant.

    If a member introduces a resolution, but does not announce it from the floor, that would not force a vote or have any immediate impact – making it more of a symbolic threat or warning shot to the speaker.

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