House decides to move ahead with vote on McCarthy removal

Vote to remove McCarthy begins
Vote will be a “call by roll”, meaning clerk will call name legislators alphabetically by surname.

They will then respond with their vote.McCarthy in ‘big trouble’: Political analyst
Jake Sherman, the co-founder of the US politics website Punchbowl news, has said the current projected vote count spells trouble for McCarthy.

He noted 219 Republicans and 208 Democrats are expected to be in attendance for the vote. That means McCarthy can only afford to lose five votes from his party. Six Republicans have already publicly said they will vote to remove McCarthy.

Five other Republicans voted against tabling the effort.

“McCarthy is in deep trouble,” Sherman wrote.

Republican versus Republican in the House
This debate has featured Republican after Republican in support of McCarthy, with Gaetz left to fend off their attempts to get him to stop the move to remove the speaker. The Democrats, meanwhile, have been quiet.

That goes to the root of the issue: This is a conflict between Republicans, but it’s not an even fight in terms of numbers. Gaetz’s vision – one that does not accept any form of cooperation with the Democrats – is a minority one within his party.

But because of the narrow majority the Republicans have in the House, and with the Democrats in no mood to come to McCarthy’s rescue, Gaetz and his supporters have an outsized amount of power, and the ability to potentially end McCarthy’s time as speaker.Republicans ‘need to be no drama option’, legislator says
Representative Mike Garcia, a Republican, accused those of seeking to remove McCarthy of wasting precious time when legislators could be legislating.

“They’ve decided to make today about drama. Not about solving problems and helping our constituents but about drama. We need to be the no drama option for America,” he said.Treasury secretary leaves speaker decision to the House
Some comments from the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who expressed some level of gratitude for McCarthy’s work to push through the stopgap funding bill.

“McCarthy acted to keep government open… it’s for the Republicans and the Democrats in the House to figure that out,” she said as the debate continues in the House on whether to let Speaker McCarthy keep his job.‘No living human has taken the vote we’re about to take’
Representative Bruce Westerman referenced the historical significance of the vote to remove McCarthy.

“No living human has taken the vote we’re about to take. It deserves that we pause, we reflect, that we consider deeply the ramification of our actions,” said Westerman, who opposing removing McCarthy.

He called the effort, at its very least, a “disruptive overreaction”.

“In reality, it’s selfish, bad for conservative policies, and bad for America,” he said.