Latest news and live updates on the House vote on whether to oust Kevin McCarthy. The vote was prompted by a motion by Matt Gaetz after government funding disagreements.
He offered the Democrats no concessions to vote for him, and reneged on a deal he personally negotiated in May during the debt ceiling hostage crisis negotiations. Why in the world would democrats vote to keep someone who actively betrayed them in power without major, binding concessions?
He also blamed them for the budget fiasco on Sunday, saying they didn’t want to pass a budget. The Dems were rightfully outraged. They hate him…why would they want to save him?
Why did democrats vote to oust McCarthy? He was working with them and with no speaker nothing gets done?
He offered the Democrats no concessions to vote for him, and reneged on a deal he personally negotiated in May during the debt ceiling
hostage crisisnegotiations. Why in the world would democrats vote to keep someone who actively betrayed them in power without major, binding concessions?Because they don’t want him to be speaker, and more importantly he publicly said he would not work with them to keep his speakership.
He reneged on his agreement with Democrats and the stated he would not work with them.
He also blamed them for the budget fiasco on Sunday, saying they didn’t want to pass a budget. The Dems were rightfully outraged. They hate him…why would they want to save him?
He’s a known quantity and republicans hate him? If they believe they can get someone better. I just didn’t think that was in the picture currently.