Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) re-upped his assaults on Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and accused him of being misogynistic toward a member of the Republican conference.

Appearing on Tuesday’s episode of The Steadiness on Newsmax, Gaetz discussed ongoing negotiations amongst Home Republicans, who are having a whale of a time looking to give you spending regulation in order to fund the government past Sept. 30. If Congress and the White Home can’t come to an agreement, the federal govt will shut down.

Gaetz has been a fierce critic of congressional reliance on persevering with resolutions to fund the complete govt. As a substitute, he desires Congress to go more than one single-subject funding payments.

Amid the negotiations, Gaetz has feuded with McCarthy and accused the speaker of breaching the phrases of an settlement the two made in January, whereby Gaetz dropped his opposition to McCarthy’s speakership bid in change for single-topic funding payments, amongst other pledges.

Newsmax host Eric Bolling confirmed Gaetz a clip of McCarthy alleging that Gaetz requested him to quash an Ethics Committee investigation into him.

“Tell us what’s going on with you and McCarthy,” he mentioned.

“Smartly, in that exact clip, Kevin was once mendacity,” Gaetz stated. “There’s no different approach to put it. I’ve by no means asked Kevin McCarthy or someone else to intrude in an ethics subject… So, this is just Kevin deflecting from his own screw ups.”

Gaetz then referred to as the speaker “unhinged” earlier than accusing him of misogyny:

It’s no longer an Ethics Committee topic that led us to be here with out our appropriations payments passed. And this is additionally a pattern, Eric, as a result of after I used to be important of Kevin’s leadership, “Oh, I’m just an ethically challenged congressman.”

But then, when Victoria Spartz, a congresswoman from Indiana got here ahead and mentioned, “No, I consider Matt Gaetz that it’s Kevin McCarthy, who failed us.” Well, then he said, “Smartly, she’s only a quitter.”

Now, it is a woman who said that she used to be gonna be returning to her family because they wanted her and Kevin called her a quitter. In the meantime when a man in Congress in fact left in the middle of his time period – Chris Stewart – Kevin McCarthy didn’t call him a quitter. So he’s been reckless and unhinged and rattled and misogynist in how he’s attacked those people who are making a substantive argument.

Bolling requested Gaetz if he wants McCarthy’s job.

“No,” he mentioned. “I’ve no real interest in working for speaker. I simply want the Congress to do its precise work. I believe there are other folks that have better leadership skills than I do. I don’t need to man the wheel, but when vital. I understand how to be the rudder to help guide this factor and to keep us not off course.”

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