Republicans are sick of Matt Gaetz, but none are acting on it
Party colleagues are keen to expel the Florida hardliner from the caucus after he led a vote to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But he’s unperturbed.
Washington | Hardline Republican Matt Gaetz stood in an unfamiliar spot on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) as he pressed his case to boot Kevin McCarthy from the role of House Speaker – the Democratic side of the chamber.
By the time Gaetz finally made good on his long-standing threats to force a vote to topple McCarthy, his Republican colleagues were so fed up with him that they wouldn’t let him debate from within their caucus, banishing him to the minority Democratic side of the room.
