“It’s embarrassing,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) told The Daily Beast. “It just degrades the entire institution and confirms the worst perceptions people have of Congress and politicians, when a schmuck like that continues to hold the office and sit in a committee room.” Huffman, who also called Gaetz “a world-class sleazeball,” said everyone knew how this would end. “I have no doubt that he will not be in Congress for long,” he said. But for all of Huffman’s bluster, he was unwilling to question Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision not to remove Gaetz from his committees. “We did it with Marjorie traitor Greene,” Huffman said, referring to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom Democrats stripped of committee assignments in February. “And, you know, I would support it, of course. I think many of us would. But I’m not gonna second guess her judgment on how sparingly you gotta use an extreme authority like that.”