Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Prime Time” to discuss the turmoil and his successor, House Speaker Mike Johnson, as turmoil continues within the House Republican caucus. (R-Louisiana) commented on the decision. , facing each other.
A former California lawmaker says the beginning of the end for the Republican Party was when he led the effort to remove Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) last year.
“Kevin, what’s going on with the spending? And what happened to Johnson?” host Jesse Watters asked.
“I don’t know what they’re spending the money on right now, but when I became Speaker of the House, I put in place a 72-hour rule that gives not only members but Americans an opportunity to read the bill,” McCarthy said. answered. “We’ll never waive that unless it’s a continuing resolution, which is what we’re already doing to inform people. I think it’s always beneficial to have people read the bill and have America read the bill. And really, this comes back to what’s happening in Congress today. It goes back to eight Republicans led by Gaetz working with all the Democrats to decide who would be Speaker. At that time, the Republicans has lost its majority.”
“Jesse, do you remember what we were able to do in the first nine months?” he continued. “The strongest and most conservative border security bill is energy independence. We created the Parents Bill of Rights. We stopped decriminalization in D.C. We formalized the pandemic. We stopped the removal of military men and women who refused vaccines. We voted in the largest savings cut in American history – more than $2 trillion. Welfare Reform. We took $20 billion of that away from the IRS, which was trying to hire people to target us. We had great success, and we worked with a small number of people to help people pay their bills. It took 72 hours to read all the invoices as they could potentially support.
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