Many Republican lawmakers have posed raising the threshold to trigger a no-confidence vote in the next House speaker — or ditching the rule altogether — after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the role Tuesday. …
Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez of Florida said he would not support any candidate until there is a commitment to reform the rule. …
Republican Rep. Marc Molinaro of New York called the motion to vacate a “bad precedent” and said the threshold should be “very high.”
“It is an absolute mistake to allow such a small number of folks to be able to initiate such a disruptive process, and hopefully we revisit it,” Molinaro told reporters Wednesday.
[That’s what *should* happen, but that depends on whether the Gaetz 8 allow themselves to be defenestrated. Democrats won’t vote to change the MTV rule now — they have too much power through it. They’ll champ at the bit for someone to trigger it if Jim Jordan becomes the next speaker so that they can do the same thing to him, and likely they will force Jordan into deals that will anger the fringe just to provoke that outcome. — Ed]
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