{"id":27315,"date":"2023-12-06T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/12\/06\/kevin-mccarthy-resigning-from-congress-after-ouster-as-house-speaker\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:10:05","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-resigning-from-congress-after-ouster-as-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2023\/12\/06\/kevin-mccarthy-resigning-from-congress-after-ouster-as-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy resigning from Congress after ouster as House speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two months after his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-motion-to-vacate-congress-327e294a39f8de079ef5e4abfb1fa555\">historic ouster<\/a>&nbsp;as House speaker, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his congressional seat in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His announcement capped a stunning end for the one-time deli owner from Bakersfield, who ascended through state and national politics to become second in line to the presidency before a contingent of hard-right conservatives&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/speaker-kevin-mccarthy-ousted-house-republicans-f93cbd2c7f6f8f32dbb9cddf7905efa3\">engineered his removal<\/a>&nbsp;in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCarthy is the only speaker in history to be voted out of the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo matter the odds, or personal cost, we did the right thing,\u201d McCarthy wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, announcing his decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is in this spirit that I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His toppling from the chamber\u2019s top post was fueled by grievances from his party\u2019s hard-right flank, including over his decision&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/government-shutdown-mccarthy-congress-republicans-732baaa19c91f981e492fd0e6a76aba8\">to work with Democrats to keep the federal government open<\/a>&nbsp;rather than risk a shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCarthy, 58, arrived in the House in January 2007 after a stint in the California Assembly, where he served as minority leader. In Congress, he maneuvered through his party\u2019s hierarchy \u2014 serving as majority whip and Republican leader along the way \u2014 before being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-us-republican-party-0938c7358f41c83759246f8949ac7c15\">elected speaker<\/a>&nbsp;in January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dayslong floor fight that preceded his elevation to the House\u2019s top job foreshadowed a stormy tenure, at a time when former President Donald Trump remained the de facto leader of the party and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-us-republican-party-donald-trump-united-states-government-2022-midterm-elections-77c6e337644955bc3e64e1f7e3a094e5\">deep divisions<\/a>&nbsp;within the GOP raised serious questions about the party\u2019s ability to govern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took a record 15 votes over four days for McCarthy to line up the support he needed to win the post he had long coveted, finally prevailing on a 216-212 vote with Democrats backing leader Hakeem Jeffries and six Republican holdouts voting present. Not since the Civil War era has a speaker\u2019s vote dragged through so many rounds of counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCarthy emerged from the fight weakened, especially considering Republicans held only a fragile margin in the chamber after a predicted \u201cred wave\u201d failed to materialize in the 2022 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once installed as speaker, his well-known savvy for fundraising and political glad-handing appeared ill-suited for corralling his party\u2019s disputatious hard-right faction. And deals he cut to become speaker \u2014 including a rules change that allowed any single lawmaker to file a motion to remove him \u2014 left him vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he became speaker, \u201che faced new challenges that required a different skill set,\u201d said Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney, a one-time domestic policy analyst for House Republicans. 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