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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., prepares to hold up explicit images and an airline confirmation made by Hunter Biden during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing with IRS whistleblowers at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) **FILE**

Marjorie Taylor Greene backs Speaker McCarthy but also doesn’t want to expel Matt Gaetz

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters following a closed-door meeting with House Republicans after his last-ditch plan to keep the government temporarily open collapsed yesterday, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. A new vote is scheduled for Saturday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCarthy says Gaetz is more interested in punishing him than pursuing Biden impeachment inquiry

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 27, 2019, photo President Donald Trump, right, accompanied by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., left, arrive for Game 5 of the World Series baseball game between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Gaetz says he’s in contact with Trump amid effort to oust McCarthy from speakership

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., holds a news conference just after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, but the measure must first go to the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Matt Gaetz is threatening to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It won’t be easy

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters amid news that Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., one of his harshest critics, plans to use a procedural tool — called a motion to vacate — to try and strip McCarthy of his office as soon as this week, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress buckles up for McCarthy-Gaetz showdown, lawmakers exchange jabs about deals with Dems

By Kerry Picket and Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., one of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's harshest critics, answers questions from members of the media after speaking on the House floor, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Gaetz has said he plans to use a procedural tool called a motion to vacate to try and strip McCarthy of his office as soon as this week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Rep. Matt Gaetz files resolution to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House

By Kerry Picket and Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters following a closed-door meeting with House Republicans after his last-ditch plan to keep the government temporarily open collapsed yesterday, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. A new vote is scheduled for Saturday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he will survive Matt Gaetz’s motion, says it’s ‘personal’

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

In this photo provided to the Associated Press, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, poses for a photo with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of N.Y., at a closed-door meeting with members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo)

Ukraine aid is dropped from government funding bill. That raises questions about future U.S. support

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., holds a news conference just after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, but the measure must first go to the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress dodged a federal shutdown, but more spending fights and House infighting are in the offing

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a House Oversight Committee impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she would ‘absolutely’ vote to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., appears before the House Rules Committee to propose amendments to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Gaetz says he will seek to oust McCarthy as speaker this week and calls for new House leadership

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., talks to reporters just after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the government temporarily open collapsed, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The stopgap spending bill was sunk by hard-right Republicans and puts McCarthy's speakership in serious jeopardy with almost no political leverage to lead the House at a critical moment that has pushed the government into crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Matt Gaetz rallies House GOP rebels to force out Kevin McCarthy

By Kerry Picket and Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., takes his seat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Byron Donalds: McCarthy is ‘in trouble’ after failing to meet conservative demands

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden calls out House for close call on shutdown, says time to help Ukraine is running out

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., holds a news conference just after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, but the measure must first go to the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Matt Gaetz says Democrats will ‘bail out’ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., talks to reporters just after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the government temporarily open collapsed, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The stopgap spending bill was sunk by hard-right Republicans and puts McCarthy's speakership in serious jeopardy with almost no political leverage to lead the House at a critical moment that has pushed the government into crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Gaetz says Kevin McCarthy’s speakership is on ‘tenuous’ ground

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

The Capitol in Washington, is seen at sunrise, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. On one side of the U.S. Capitol, two senators have steered the debate over government funding mostly clear of partisan fights, clearing a path for bills to pass with bipartisan momentum. Steps away, on the House side of the building, things couldn’t be more different. House Republicans, trying to win support from the far-right wing of the party, have loaded up their government funding packages with funding cuts and conservative policy priorities. Democrats have responded with ire, branding their GOP counterparts as extreme and bigoted and withdrawing support for the legislation.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House passes temporary spending bill to avoid midnight shutdown, sends to Senate

By Kerry Picket and Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., left, and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, confer in the hallway near the House chamber just after a stopgap spending bill advanced on a procedural vote but with final passage uncertain, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

On the brink of a government shutdown, the Senate tries to approve funding but it’s almost too late

Associated Press

Incoming House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., speaks during a news conference as the House of Representatives struggles to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress with a new Republican majority, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrats take floor, stall for time while parsing through McCarthy’s new stopgap bill

By Alex Miller and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., holds a news conference just after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, but the measure must first go to the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCarthy not worried about job after needing Dem votes to pass stop-gap spending measure

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times