Kevin McCarthy is OUT. Now what? Matt Gaetz explains what’s next.



Matt Gaetz, the Republican Florida congressman who led the ousting of House Rep. Kevin McCarthy, recently joined Jason Whitlock to discuss what’s next.

“The Bible tells us a lot about this, Jason,” he said. “In times where man is disoriented or when we've lost our way … people come forward with wisdom, with personal characteristics, and with a renewed sense of dedication, and there is divine Providence in all this.”

“I know that God's will will be done when we have a new speaker … someone who is really ready to help us lead the country and to be fighters for the tens of millions of Americans who rest all of their hope in the House of Representatives,” he told Jason.

Gaetz explained that we live in a world where “the Biden administration is turning against people and where the Senate is unreliable to put the people's interest first,” but that doesn’t mean we have no hope.

Sometimes hope comes in the form of turmoil, he explained.

“The establishment wants … calm waters all the time, they want everything to be nice and smooth, and then you won't realize that underneath the water, you know, bad stuff is going on, and there's a Chernobyl down there” that could “cause catastrophic impact.”

“I think sometimes you’ve got to have some turbulent water so that people wake up and say, ‘All right, what's going on here?’” he said.

People want to know what it’s “going to take to secure this border,” they want to know how the government plans to “[reduce] spending in order to save the dollar from losing its status as the global reserve currency,” and they want assurance that the country is not about to “sleepwalk into World War III with Russia,” he explained to Jason, who nodded along in agreement.

Matt hopes to get back to a place where “the people really lead and the people we call leaders – they follow the people.”

“So let's get the people engaged, informed, and at the table for the decision-making process,” he said.

Sounds great to us!


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Is THIS who will replace McCarthy as speaker?



In a surprising twist, Kevin McCarthy has been removed from his position as the speaker of the House, leaving the position completely vacant.

Eight Republicans joined forces with Democrats to oust McCarthy.

One of those Republicans was Rep. Matt Gaetz, who seems to have successfully persuaded his colleagues. “Chaos is Speaker McCarthy. Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word,” Gates said.

“The one thing that the White House, Democrats, and many of us on the conservative side of the Republican caucus would argue is that the thing we have in common [is] Kevin McCarthy said something to all of us at one point or another that he didn’t really mean and never intended to live up to,” he continued.

Sara Gonzales believes this was a sound decision.

“What the hell have you done?” Gonzales says, referencing McCarthy. “You’re voting to send all of our money to Ukraine, you’re pushing the rest of the House members to sign on to these BS spending bills and you didn’t follow through with what you said you were going to do,” she adds.

BlazeTV contributor Jaco Booyens agrees, adding that he’d “like to see a Chip Roy in that seat, because Chip will 100 percent focus on the border.”

He notes that Jim Jordan would be great as well, “but Chip is a bulldog” who will, “at the minimum, stop the bleeding at the border.”

Pat Gray is concerned that “we could get somebody worse.”

“I can’t remember the last time there was a really strong conservative as speaker of the House. We’ve had to settle every time, or it’s been somebody terrible, like Nancy Pelosi,” he adds.

Gray believes we need someone “who’s going to assert the powers that belong with the Congress, like the power of the purse string.”

“Shut off the spigot for Ukraine, that’s thing one. Fund the protection of our own border, that’s really important,” he adds.


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