Months after being ousted from his speakership role, Rep. McCarthy said on Wednesday he has 'decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways.'
Gaetz, who led the unprecedented and successful effort to oust McCarthy from his role as House speaker last month, said the incident ‘deserves immediate and swift investigation by the Ethics Committee.’
Rep. Tom Emmer, the House's Majority Whip, is widely seen as a lobbyist-friendly moderate Republican who is backed by Big Tech and more socially liberal than many of his GOP colleagues.
It appears the primary concern over the removal of Kevin McCarthy is a weakening in the likelihood that Ukraine would get an open line of unlimited credit from U.S. taxpayers.