House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., says it is up to Republicans to find a way out of their political differences.
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The House is set to vote soon on a motion to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from his job and his fate may lie in the hands of Democrats.
“If you throw a speaker out that has 99 percent of their conference, that kept government open and paid the troops, I think we’re in a really bad place,” McCarthy told reporters in the Capitol Tuesday morning.
That could potentially happen when the House takes an unprecedented vote on his leadership on Tuesday afternoon.
McCarthy admitted that he may not have enough Republican votes to remain speaker, but he says he isn’t willing to offer any concessions to Democrats to help him say in power.
Democrats refuse to save McCarthy
That defiant tone helped unify Democrats against him, opting instead to let Republicans sort out their differences on their own.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, said it is up to Republicans to “break with extremists.”
House Democrats will continue to put people over politics.
We are ready to find bipartisan common ground.
Our extreme colleagues have shown no willingness to do the same.
They must find a way to end the House Republican Civil War.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) October 3, 2023
“We are ready, willing and able to work together with our Republican colleagues but it is on them to join us to move the Congress and the country forward,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.
Jeffries also informed members that he and other party leaders will vote to remove McCarthy if and when a vote comes to the House…
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