This Monday, after the bipartisan approval to pass temporary legislation to avoid the closure of the United States Congress, the most radical wing of the Republican Party, led by Congressman Matt Gaetz, presented a recall motion against the president of the House of Representatives, Republican Kewin McCarthy, who they accuse of being to blame for the approval of the law that prevented the “shutdown” of the Biden Administration. A request that confronts Republicans with a measure not seen in more than a century.
“How would you be different as Speaker of the House compared to Mr. Boehner?” a reporter asked then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in September 2015, as the California Republican was pursuing, and finally abandoned his first attempt at the presidency.
McCarthy laughed as he stood next to outgoing President John Boehner – who had just resigned after facing a threat of impeachment – and joked that he was from a different generation and wouldn’t be as weathered.
Eight years later, McCarthy is finding there are fewer differences between them as he faces a conservative revolt against his presidency.
“If someone wants to impeach me because I want to be the adult in the room, let them try,” McCarthy told reporters Saturday.
And his critics, specifically Rep. Matt Gaetz, are trying to do just that. On Monday, the far-right Republican from Florida announced that he was going to use a procedural tool – called an impeachment motion – to try to remove McCarthy from office.
In McCarthy’s case, that process lasted 15 rounds in January, an unprecedented number.
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