Kevin McCarthy Faces Vote In Effort To Remove Him From Speakership
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deadline.comAlmost 10 months since a marathon series of votes to make him speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday faces losing his job.
The House was poised to vote on a motion to vacate, filed by McCarthy’s nemesis from the right, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). The vote, expected to take place at about 1:30 p.m.
ET, threatened to revive the spectable of January, when McCarthy endured through 15 votes before winning the speakership. It was unclear whether McCarthy had the votes to table Gaetz’s effort, as the Florida congressman needs only a handful of lawmakers on his side given the GOP’s slim four-vote majority.
Some Democrats could vote to help McCarthy, but Democrats appeared to be coalescing around a plan to remain unified against him.
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