Kevin McCarthy looks doomed as chairman: Republican’s future hangs in the balance as 11 members of his OWN party vote for a bid to oust him — and Matt Gaetz calls him ‘chaos’ who ‘can’t be trusted ‘

Kevin McCarthy’s future as Speaker of the House of Representatives hangs in the balance after an attempted vote to impeach him failed in dramatic scenes in Congress.

Eleven Republicans joined Democrats in voting against a proposed motion, and the House of Representatives must now consider and vote on the motion to evict. The House of Representatives will now debate the eviction motion and is expected to vote on it later today.

It is expected that all or almost all Democrats will vote ‘yes’ on this motion – along with a handful of Republicans.

Two of the 11 Republicans who voted not to delay the vote, Reps. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, and Victoria Spartz, Ind., are expected to vote for McCarthy.

If McCarthy is impeached, the House of Representatives would be thrown into chaos as Republicans struggle to choose a new leader — a process that could drag on for many rounds of voting, just as it did in January when McCarthy finally won the gavel.

“Chaos is Speaker McCarthy,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who started the firestorm by filing the motion to evict, said on the House floor. “$33 trillion in debt is chaos.”

Gaetz noted that many of Republicans’ “accomplishments” in the House of Representatives amount to bills that will never pass the Senate and become law — a boo on the part of Republicans in the chamber. not issue a subpoena for Hunter Biden.

“We need a new speaker — ideally someone who doesn’t want it, and hasn’t dealt with it his entire adult life,” GOP Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., added on the House floor.

Gaetz and Good spoke in the House of Representatives from the Democratic side of the chamber, while McCarthy’s allies expressed support for the Republican side.

The anti-McCarthy Republicans have not united around one alternative that they would like to present as a speaker. Gaetz has noted that the speaker doesn’t even have to be a member of the House.

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told reporters there are “a lot of people” doing the job better than McCarthy. Gaetz said Monday night that he would like to see Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who is battling blood cancer, in the role but seemed open to other options.

Burchett also said he wanted a speaker who didn’t really want the job.

He said last week he had a conversation with McCarthy, “the last thing he said was, ‘I really want to be a speaker.’ And I think that sums up the whole thing… it’s not about one person.”

But McCarthy’s allies could continue to nominate him for speaker again.

At a press conference before the election, McCarthy vowed to “never give up” as he insisted he would not make a deal with Democrats to win their votes and exuded confidence that he would remain chairman.

He has emphasized that the case is a battle for the stability of “the institution” and invoked former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to the motion to vacate the position.

If McCarthy is impeached, he would be the first speaker ever removed from office. The last time the House voted on a motion to evict was in 1910 under House Speaker Joseph Cannon.

McCarthy and his allies have long insisted that Gaetz has a personal vendetta against the speaker.

“It may seem very personal, but it doesn’t appear that he has any regard for the country or the institution,” McCarthy said Tuesday.

McCarthy has said Gaetz blames him for being investigated by the Ethics Commission.

McCarthy could have gone to Democrats and asked them to bail him out in exchange for concessions on a power-sharing deal, but McCarthy shot down that idea.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., urged his members to vote “no” on the filing of the eviction motion and vote “yes” on the eviction motion .

“The Democrats in the House of Representatives will continue to put people above politics. We are ready to find common ground. Our extreme colleagues have not shown the willingness to do the same. They must find a way to end the Republican Civil War in the House of Representatives,” he wrote on X.