JAKARTA - Nine months serving as Chairman of the United States House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy was demoted in Tuesday's vote, after a group of critics and his right-wing party colleagues received the support of the Democratic Party, instead of him.
Trying to calm the Republican group down hard since taking office and subject to their demands in ways that are considered detrimental to the US House of Representatives as an institution, McCarthy actually got a counter-attack until finally the vote was held on Tuesday, citing The Washington Post 4 October.
The motion against McCarthy was filed Monday by critic and his own party mate, Matt Gaetz, who is from the right wing of Florida.
"Kevin McCarthy is a swamp creature. He rose to power by collecting special interest money and redistributing the money in exchange for help. We are overcoming this fever now," Gaetz told reporters.
Another Republican Nancy Mace told reporters she chose to remove McCarthy from the chair for violating her promise to increase access to contraceptives, as well as support the draft law she wrote on rape equipment.
"I have made an agreement with Kevin McCarthy, with the chairman, that he has not kept his promise to help women in this country," Mace criticized.
"We didn't do anything for them," he quipped.
Pada Senin malam, setelah cukup banyak anggota Partai Republik yang menyatakan niat mereka, jelas bahwa McCarthy tidak bisa menang hanya dari suara yang mendukungnya, seperti tradisi DPR, sehingga membutuhkan bantuan Partai Demokrat untuk mendukungnya.
Fate said otherwise. Eight Republicans, a party from McCarthy, along with 208 Democratic Party members chose to fire McCarthy. That marks the first time in history, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives has been removed.
Republicans control the House of Representatives with a narrow majority of 221-212, meaning they should not lose more than five votes if any of its members join the Democratic Party's camp in the vote.
McCarthy himself has repeatedly angered the Democratic Party in recent weeks, including by launching an impeachment investigation against President Biden.
On Saturday, he gave the Democratic Party little time to read the draft temporary spending law, to prevent the closure of the government needed to be passed by their voices.
The Democratic Party could have saved McCarthy, but after considering it, they said they would not interfere with the Republican Party in resolving their internal problems.
"Let them engage in their inability," US House of Representatives member from the Democratic Party Pramila Jayapal told reporters before the vote.
The Democratic Party also said it viewed McCarthy as untrustworthy, after he violated the state spending agreement in May with Biden.
"No one trusts Kevin McCarthy," said Pramila Jayapal
Some of their voices filled with anger, saying they no longer see him as a kind Republican youth, making friends with them a decade earlier at the DPR's gym and planning bipartisan group cycling.
Instead, they view McCarthy as a leader who has changed quite quickly in the last three years, being a coward and unprincipled leader, who is only trying to defend his position for power.
Some Democratic Party members pity him and all his efforts to calm a stubborn group of right-wing radicals. But they said he had to pay the price for making so many promises and breaking them.
"He has brought chaos to the DPR, and he says keeping him in that position is the way we solve the problem? That's a bad argument," House of Representatives member and senior Democrat Adam Smith.
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Separately, at a news conference on Tuesday night, McCarthy blamed the Democratic Party for not giving him support, suggesting he had been given such assurances at the end of last year.
"I think today is a political decision," he said, hinting that the decision was detrimental to the DPR.
"My fear is that the institution falls today," McCarthy said.
It is known that McCarthy's allies, who were first elected in 2006, hope that senior Democratic Party politicians who care about the institution, Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, can find a way to give him sufficient support.
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