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House Democrats Refuse to Save McCarthy in Vote on His Ouster.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he planned to call a vote on Tuesday on the right-wing move to oust him from his post, after declaring that he had no intention of giving Democrats concessions in exchange for helping him survive.
“I’m confident,” Mr. McCarthy said of his ability to defeat the effort to remove him, as he dismissed the idea of making a deal with Democrats. He said he had told Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader: “You guys do whatever you need to do” on the vote.
Either Mr. McCarthy or one of his allies is expected to try to quash the effort to oust him, led by Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, by asking the House to “table,” or kill, Mr. Gaetz’s resolution. But the speaker’s slim majority and the number of right-wing rebels in favor of ousting him mean he has little chance of winning that vote — which requires a majority — without at least some support from Democrats.
But Mr. Jeffries instructed members of his caucus during a closed-door meeting not to bail out Mr. McCarthy, a move that appeared to close off the California Republican’s best chance of surviving the challenge.
“Given their unwillingness to break from MAGA extremism in an authentic and comprehensive manner,” Mr. Jeffries wrote in a letter to his caucus minutes before an expected vote, “House Democratic leadership will vote yes on the pending Republican motion to vacate the chair.”
The vote was expected later Tuesday afternoon.
There is no clear replacement for Mr. McCarthy if he is ousted. “I think there’s plenty of people who can step up and do the job,” Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, one of the rebels bent on pushing Mr. McCarthy out, said, adding he did not know who he had in mind for the job instead.
A vacancy in the speaker’s chair would essentially paralyze the House until a successor is chosen, according to multiple procedural experts. An interim speaker would be chosen from a list prepared by Mr. McCarthy and his staff at the beginning of the year, but staff intimately familiar with House rules say the role of that person would be to oversee a speaker election and little more.
The House and Senate must pass appropriations bills to fund the federal government before mid-November or there will be a shutdown. Among the reasons far-right Republicans are mad at Mr. McCarthy is that he relied on Democrats to pass a temporary spending patch last weekend to keep the government open.
Mr. McCarthy was unapologetic on Tuesday about keeping the government open. “If at the end of the day I am removed from speaker because I moved to ensure t
