2023-10-04 08:42:52
by Viviana Mazza
After the first speaker of the US House of Representatives was dismissed, the vote to elect his successor is set for next week
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK – Kevin McCarthy made history yesterday: the first speaker of the House of Representatives to be dismissed in the United States. What happens now?
The successor
In a 45-minute conference in which he compared Putin to Hitler and defended the decision to open an impeachment inquiry into Biden, McCarthy also said he would not run for speaker again. The vote to elect his successor has been set for next week. Among the candidates there could be Steve Scalise, his former number two: of Italian origins (his ancestors immigrated to Louisiana in the nineteenth century), in treatment for cancer, but he would have already started moving – according to the Politico website – to evaluate whether he has the votes to be elected. In 2002 Scalise was criticized for speaking at a meeting of a supremacist group; he instead earned the respect of many after surviving an attack by a left-wing extremist who shot him at a baseball game in 2017. Another possible candidate is Jim Jordan of Ohio, who is part of (and chaired) the so-called Freedom Caucus, the group that includes Matt Gaetz and other anti-McCarthy rebels. Anyone who wants to be a leader will have to come to terms with this small but ungovernable branch of the party.
The paralysis
Meanwhile, an interim speaker was appointed, Patrick McHenry, an ally of McCarthy, who slammed the gavel with such violence (in closing the session after the removal of the speaker) that many imagined he wanted to slam it against Matt Gaetz’s head. After that, McHenry’s first move was to evict Nancy Pelosi, speaker emeritus (or rather the things she left behind) from the office adjacent to that of the speaker who he transformed into hers. The ceremonial role. While awaiting the appointment of McCarthy’s successor, the Chamber is effectively paralyzed. What will happen to aid to Ukraine and the new law to finance the government after November 17? This is an open question.
Trump’s role
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, who led the group of rebels who led to the speaker’s ouster, says he is sure based on his conversations with Trump that he did the right thing. A somewhat vague statement, which seems to suggest the former president’s endorsement for the dismissal. But in reality Trump, who in January had telephoned some deputies to urge them to vote for McCarthy, this time did not take sides. Gaetz is very loyal to the former president, but so are deputies such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boehbert who instead did not vote for the speaker’s removal. Trump, who spent another day in court in New York yesterday and was warned for intimidating the judge’s staff, wrote on social media: I don’t understand why Republicans always argue among themselves instead of targeting the radical Democratic left.
October 4, 2023 (modified October 4, 2023 | 08:44)
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