Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told members of the House GOP conference Wednesday morning that he will not bring the Senate’s bipartisan continuing resolution to the floor for a vote.
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told reporters after a closed-door House GOP conference meeting that McCarthy informed lawmakers during the gathering that he will not bring the upper chamber’s legislation to the floor for a vote, even after the Senate voted to advance it in a bipartisan fashion Tuesday night.
“I don’t think he plans to do that,” Good said when asked about bringing the Senate stopgap bill up for a vote. “He reiterated that this morning. I called on him to consistently say that to the public, let the Senate know that’s dead on arrival and that there’s no way the House would pass that bill.”
The doublespeak is deafening. He is not holding a vote because he knows that there is enough support in the House for it to pass. It would just require Democratic votes to do so, which would result in a new speaker.
There would be a motion but I don’t know if any body else in the GOP wants that job. Especially with the clown show that they have become.
Pretty sure removal doesn’t preclude him from being nominated again. It would just be that clown show when he was first elected all over again but he’ll have even less leverage.