Impeachment of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives: An unprecedented event

The issue to be considered in this context of the removal of the position of Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, is the support of many representatives of the Democratic party for the plan; and so it seems that the members of the Democratic party have taken revenge on McCarthy for his action to continue the plan to remove from power the President of the United States Joe Biden. Kevin McCarthy The plan to remove MacCarthy from the position of speaker was approved by the votes of 216 yes to 210 no. In total, in the voting, 207 members of the Democratic party and 11 Republicans voted for 207 yes votes and 208 Republican votes for no.

Nancy Mace, a Rebuplican MP says: McCarthy was not loyal to any party and would have caused chaos if he had stayed in office. We want an honest speaker of the House of Representatives who will carry out his duties. McCarthy is the first Speaker of the House of Representatives in the history of the United States to be fired from that position by his colleagues in a plan prepared by members of his party. McCarthy wrote on the X website that: "I am not looking to run for Speaker of the House again".

Last winter, McCarthy from the Republican party faced opposition from radical members of the party during the election; and after 15 rounds of voting, he managed to win the seat of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The decision to fire McCarthy has been made at the suggestion of Matt Gaetz, one of the Republican representatives of the state of Florida and a loyal ally of the former US president, Donald Trump, who leads the part of the radical conservatives in the Republican Party. For several months, Gaetz has been threatening to use legal action in the US House of Representatives in the name of a proposal to remove McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives. At the same time, Matt Gaetz said in a speech that: "McCarthy has violated the agreement we reached in January. He has crippled the House of Representatives and did not consider the draft of the spending bills."

Matt Gaetz The vote was held just a few days after a split within the Republican Party that brought the US government close to a shutdown over the debate on the bill to finance the country's government budget. A plan to impeach McCarthy carried out by his fellow extremists was presented after he cooperated with the Democrats to prevent the shutdown of the Biden administration. Hard-line Republicans and Trump supporters were not satisfied with McCarthy's performance following the agreement he reached with the Biden government to increase the debt ceiling and pass a short-term budget.

On the other hand, the approval of McCarthy's proposal not to close the federal government has undoubtedly been accompanied by a major crisis; who is cut aid to Ukraine; which is a big blow to the policies of President Joe Biden's government in continuing to provide military aid to Ukraine, as well as the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky. The important point here is that hard-line Republicans in the US House of Representatives strongly oppose Washington's aid to Kiev in the war against Russia. The dismissal of McCarthy as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives has been widely reflected by politicians and various media;

so much so that political experts and media circles have called that action equal to violence and tension and that this is the beginning of witnessing a civil war among the members of the Republican Party and it is a political spawn." At the same time, This step shows how the domestic policies of the United States are facing serious political tensions and errors. It is expected that the election of the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, which will undoubtedly be based on the majority of Republicans among them, will once again be a field of confrontation between Radical and moderate Republicans.

The Washington Post