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Republican Rep.Nancy Macehad some tough words for her House colleagues following agrueling House speaker electionthat required 15 rounds of voting over more than four days at the U.S. Capitol.
Republican Rep.Kevin McCarthy was narrowly electedto succeedNancy Pelosias speaker of the House early Saturday after a dramatic and historic showdown with members of his own party.
For thefirst time since 1923, nobody won the House speaker election on the first go-around, pointing to fierce division within the GOP, which should have had an easy time electing a speaker as the majority party.
“Matt Gaetz is a fraud,“Mace said on CBS on Sunday, adding that it would be “very difficult” to work with him moving forward.
Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Mace added that she was “concerned that commonsense legislation will not get through to get a vote on the floor,” due to the right-wing faction of the party now having so much control in the House.
In exchange for securing the votes needed to win the speakership, McCarthy made a deal with right-wing House members including Gaetz and Colorado Rep.Lauren Boebert. As part of that deal, a third of the seats on the powerful House Rules Committee — the committee that controls which bills make it to the floor — will go to ultra-conservative Republicans.
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Gaetz isn’t the only Republican Mace is worried about, though, telling CBS thatGeorge Santos— the New York representative who recentlyadmitted to fabricating many parts of his resumeand is now the subject of more than one criminal investigation — will also be “difficult to work with.”
“It’s very difficult to work with anyone who cannot be trusted, and it’s very clear his entire resume and life was manufactured until a couple days ago when he finally changed his website,” Mace said.
She continued: “It is a problem. If we say we can’t trust the left when they are telling the truth, how can we trust our own? Americans want transparency, and the one lesson I’ve learned in DC: If you want a friend you can trust, get a dog.”
source: people.com
