McCarthy’s motion to be dismissed was passed after eight Republicans rebelled.
On the 3rd (local time), the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to dismiss House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who took office in January of this year. This is the first time in 234 years since the establishment of the U.S. Congress in 1789 that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who is equivalent to the Speaker of the National Assembly in Korea and ranks third in the U.S. hierarchy of power after the President and Vice President, has been dismissed. This is because all the ruling Democratic Party and eight Republican hardliners voted in favor of the dismissal motion submitted by Rep. Matt Gates, a hardliner within the opposition Republican Party to which Chairman McCarthy belongs.
Not only will the standoff in the U.S. political world intensify due to the absence of the Speaker of the House, but the passage of the budget to support Ukraine will be disrupted, which is expected to have a significant impact on the international situation.
On this day, the House of Representatives passed the bill to dismiss Speaker McCarthy by a vote of 216 in favor to 210 against. All 208 Democratic lawmakers who had been at odds with Chairman McCarthy, who had pushed for an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden’s family, approved. Here, eight lawmakers from the Freedom Caucus, a group of hard-line Republican lawmakers, agreed and passed the dismissal motion. The remaining 210 Republican lawmakers who participated in the vote were all against.
A day ago, Representative Gates, a member of the Freedom Caucus, submitted a motion to dismiss Chairman McCarthy, saying he had been too conciliatory with the Democratic Party in the process of passing a 45-day temporary budget with the Biden administration to avoid a federal government shutdown (temporary business suspension).
The House of Representatives decided to elect a new House Speaker as early as the 11th. However, as a minority of hardliners in the Republican Party joined hands with the Democratic Party, which made political calculations ahead of next year’s presidential election, to achieve the unprecedented dismissal of the chairman, many predict that the disruption will be prolonged not only in the process of selecting a new chairman but also in the subsequent operation of the National Assembly.
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Source: Donga
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