BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy's Speakership Hangs In The Balance After Democrats' Latest Move

On Tuesday, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) ability to avoid a speakership showdown in the coming days seemed to have come to an end as Rep. Gaetz (R-FL) and his allies prepare to oust the Californian from House leadership.

McCarthy's bad news started early in the day after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY) signaled to his Democrat colleagues to support the ouster of McCarthy when the vote comes to the floor.

More specifically, Democrats are expected to "definitely" stand against any procedural effort to dismiss Gaetz's call to vacate the chair. In addition, Jefferies told his colleagues to vote in favor of ousting McCarthy.

Following Gaetz's call to vacate the chair on Monday evening, the House had two days to take up Gaetz's motion to consider whether Speaker McCarthy would lose his job as speaker.

Gaetz vowed to oust McCarthy over the weekend while speaking to CNN after the California Republican worked with Democrats to pass the spending bill despite many on the Republicans' right flanks objecting to such a scenario.

The Florida Republican leads a coalition of roughly a dozen Republicans, many of whom challenged McCarthy's speakership in January, who pushed the speaker to attempt to get more concessions out of the Senate and House Democrats. This has led the Florida Republican to be criticized by his fellow members with some even considering expelling him if a House Ethics Committee investigation shows potential wrongdoing in an ongoing investigation.

Following his motion to vacate the chair, Gaetz spoke to reporters outside Capitol Hill where he explained his actions and said, "If this country's going down, and if we're losing the dollar, I'm going down fighting. And I don't care if that means fighting Republicans, Democrats, the Uniparty, the leadership, the PACs, the lobbyists. I've had it."

The last time that a motion to vacate the chair took place was in 1910 and it has never been successfully used to oust a current speaker of the House. The coming showdown this week will surely weaken McCarthy's hold on power and put Democrats in a position of strength as they will be able to watch from the sidelines as Republicans argue amongst themselves. 

Nevertheless, the intraparty rivalry currently on public display in the halls of Congress will, just like January, consume the country for days as ballot after ballot will likely be taken to decide who will lead the House of Representatives.

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