It didn’t take long after former speaker Kevin McCarthy’s historic defenestration from House GOP leadership Tuesday before Republican members began brainstorming concessions they hope to extract from the California Republican’s successor.
In exchange for their coveted votes, many House Republicans are taking early aim at pressuring the next speaker to amend or even abolish the motion to vacate — a rule reinstated by McCarthy in January as part of a deal that secured his speakership before ironically prompting his ouster less than ten months later. As National Review reported earlier this week: “There are early discussions among formerly McCarthy-aligned members to push a rules change that would increase the threshold for the motion to vacate the chair from just one member, largely to avoid empowering individual members with the ability to introduce ouster resolutions on the floor whenever they please.” Even hardliner GOP representatives Matt Gaetz (who introduced this week’s motion to vacate resolution against McCarthy) says he is open to changing the rule, provided he secures other concessions in return.
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