All posts tagged "Gaetz"

Matt Gaetz and Nancy Mace were among the Republicans who received a "super snarky" letter from a colleague on Saturday.

Gaetz and seven other Republican representatives were responsible for booting Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, which resulted in the ongoing chaos we're seeing right now. Those eight far-right Republicans pushed hard to elect Jim Jordan as the new speaker and, when it became clear he couldn't clear the needed votes, they offered a "pound of flesh" in the form of potential censure, as long as Jordan is the new speaker.

That offer was apparently not appreciated by California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock. McClintock has reportedly pushed for the reinstallation of McCarthy to the speaker position....

Rep. Matt Gaetz on Thursday suggested God was going to choose the next House speaker.

Gaetz, who pushed for the removal of prior speaker Kevin McCarthy after months of infighting, appeared on a podcast called Fearless with Jason Whitlock, where he discussed the recent developments.

In a clip posted by the host, Gaetz can be seen talking about the role of God in his decision. ...

The recent House GOP infighting that led to a blow up in the removal of Kevin McCarthy's speakership can reportedly be traced to an ally of the ex-president.

Steve Bannon has been orchestrating several aspects from his "cavelike" podcast studio, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Bannon is a former Trump adviser whose associate was recently sentenced to prison time for a "Build the Wall" scheme they worked on together.

The Times says Bannon "has spent years promoting the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump, railing against coronavirus mandates and what he refers to as a 'criminal invasion of the southern border.'"...

After becoming the first House Speaker in history to be voted out of the position by a vote of Congress, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave a farewell address to reporters on Tuesday.

And on his way out the door, McCarthy took a shot at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the far-right hardliner who called the motion to remove him in the first place.

"I don't think [the vote] says [anything] about the Republican Party; I think it says something about some people who are not a conservative," said McCarthy. "I mean, if you were conservative and you only had one entity making the battle and you vote against securing the border, you vote against cutting funding, this wasteful spending, and then you partner with all the Democrats — now you'll phrase it all the other different ways, that's not a conservative."...

"Speaker Gaetz" is something we've heard from various news sites since Rep. Matt Gaetz stood up to Speaker Kevin McCarthy on government funding, but does Gaetz even want the job? He answered Sunday.

Sites like Newsweek and Politico recently referred to "Speaker Gaetz," so it likely didn't surprise the lawmaker when a conservative brought the question to his attention on his social media.

The discussion began when Gaetz quoted an article stating that, in the Gaetz mindset, "the process would be for the government to be funded piece by piece as the House and Senate pass and iron out their differences over 12 individual appropriations bills and President Biden signs them into law.” ...