McCarthy fumes at Nancy Mace after ouster vote: ‘I can’t sit there and write your entire bill’

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took a shot at Rep. Nancy Mace‘s (R-SC) bills for not meeting the mark after Mace said she voted to vacate McCarthy as speaker due to broken promises.

Lawmakers voted 216-210 to remove McCarthy from his position. Eight Republicans joined all Democrats in a historic move against GOP leadership that left the House at a standstill until lawmakers can elect a new speaker.

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The Republicans who voted to oust McCarty include Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who filed the motion to vacate, Mace, and Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Ken Buck (R-CO), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Bob Good (R-VA), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ).

Mace pointed to the appropriations bills that have yet to pass the House, as well as bills on “women’s rights” that McCarthy said would come before members, as reasons for her vote to oust McCarthy as speaker on Tuesday.

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“As a survivor of rape, and I worked all year on a rape kit bill that hasn’t seen the time of day, I cannot tell you how frustrating that is, as a woman, in this conference, in this Capitol, to have that happen. If you make a promise, you should keep it,” Mace said. “And if you promise women you’re going to help them, then you damn well better do it.”

McCarthy, however, said he doesn’t approve of members coming to “leverage” him.

“I don’t go for that ‘I’ll vote for the bill, you do —’ that’s not well,” McCarthy said. “But if you have a problem with a bill, I want to help you. But I can’t sit there and write your entire bill and work it all the way through committee.”

“We just got her one bill out and it came back, the other bill doing on guns, it just wasn’t working. She wanted to do something else; we did something else. I just don’t appreciate — I bite my lip, I let people say things that aren’t true, but it’s not right. It is not right.”

McCarthy said he called her chief of staff to ask when he didn’t keep his word.

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“You know what her chief of staff said? ‘You have kept your word 100%,'” McCarthy said, adding that the chief of staff told Mace the same thing.

“Now, if somehow he gets fired, I’ll still give him a job,” McCarthy said.