Past shutdown fights have been organized around a demand. This one is better understood as being centered on a long, nasty grudge.
The 41-year-old Florida Republican has railed against continuing resolutions, the short-term spending stopgaps that he blames for Washington’s fiscal dysfunction. He has insisted on regular order for appropriations bills and the devolution of power to the House rank-and-file.
Gaetz has by no means brought McCarthy to his knees by himself. But he has harnessed the anti-establishment fervor inside the House GOP like no other member, setting trap after trap for a speaker desperate to please his detractors and keep his job. “There is something between them, and I don’t know what it is,” Rep. Mike Rogers said. “And that’s the impression I’ve gotten from McCarthy, too: It’s not policy-driven; it’s personal.”
Another incident from that era was captured in a new memoir written by former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Late at a 2019 Camp David retreat, Hutchinson says Gaetz followed her to a cabin he thought was hers — only to find McCarthy, who had gathered a bunch of Republicans for drinks and conversation.
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