Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) threatened on May 30 to seek an end to Kevin McCarthy’s tenure as speaker of the House were he to go through with his debt ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden.
Bishop is the first one to make this threat.
It only takes one member of Congress to file a motion to vacate the chair, forcing a vote on whether to strip McCarthy of the gavel. This rule was one of the concessions McCarthy made in January in order to win the speaker’s race after 15 rounds of voting.
“It is inescapable to me. I think it’s got to be done,” Bishop told journalists after a press conference where he and some of his fellow members of the hardline Freedom Caucus railed against the deal, which was reached over the weekend….