BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy's Fate Is Sealed As Speakership Vote Set

On Tuesday afternoon, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is set to be ousted as speaker of the House after Democrats refused to work with McCarthy to save his struggling leadership of the House Republicans.

The vote on whether or not to table Gaetz's motion to vacate the chair will take place at 1:30 PM EST. A number of Republicans, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), have already come out in support of ousting the speaker alongside Democrats.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY) signaled to reporters that Democrats will "definitely" not bail out McCarthy as Republicans like Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) explained why he will be supporting the ouster.

"My thought process is like this. Kevin McCarthy is my friend and I hate to lose him as a friend but I have a choice between that and my conscience and what my conscience tells me to do," Burchett said. "My conscience tells me that we are $33 trillion in debt. We took off the whole month of August knowing that September was going to come around as it does every year at the end of our budgetary year, fiscal year.

"There is no urgency and we just do a continual resolution, kicking the can 45 days down the road," he explained, adding that "the big boys will stay in power."

"At some point we just got to say that enough is enough folks. I hate losing Kevin as a friend but I worry about losing our country in all sincerity. We are rapidly approaching that point," he explained.

This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.
 

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