Rep. Thomas Massie, a longtime conservative maverick, is waving caution flags over Rep. Matt Gaetz’s threat to try to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., listens as the House Rules Committee prepares a bill at the Capitol in Washington, June 12, 2023. Rep. Thomas Massie, a longtime conservative maverick, is waving caution flags over Rep. Matt Gaetz’s threat to try to oust Speakerat this juncture is a bad idea that will lead to worse outcomes for conservatives,” Mr. Massie, Kentucky Republican, said Sunday on X.
Mr. Massie is the only still-serving sponsor from the last motion to vacate the speaker post. In 2015, then-Rep. Mark Meadows, North Carolina Republican, led the effort to oust then-Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican. Mr. Boehner stepped down as speaker and resigned from Congress in October 2015. He was replaced as speaker by Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican.after the passage of a clean stopgap spending measure Saturday night, citing a lack of trust within the party. Mr.
An omnibus bill would group together several appropriations bills into a single piece of legislation that Republicans might not want. Mr.The clean stopgap spending bill passed Saturday to avoid a government shutdown did not include any funding for Ukraine, which some House Republicans were staunchly against, or funds for border security, an addition that Democrats would have rejected.
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