Backstabber Watch

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had to be held back during an interview at the Republican National Convention as he taunted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).McCarthy was speaking to reporters on Tuesday when Gaetz interrupted the conversation.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) might be urged to resign from Congress after an ethics complaint against him is released.

Kevin McCarthy's apparently "squatting" in the speaker's loo. The Washington Post's Ben Terris wrote about how Speaker Kevin McCarthy's down-in-the-dumps state in the House after he was ousted from his perch warrants more introspection. 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) received donations from Rep. Kevin McCarthy's political action committee (PAC) ahead of her vote not to remove him as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he would not get involved in the possible push to expel Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) from Congress.

A House Republican caucus meeting went off the rails after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) attacked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for contributing $5 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee and key members to bolster their funding for re-election in 2024...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's latest bid to get House Republicans to fulfill a basic obligation of a governing party has failed. On Thursday morning, the House held a vote to simply begin debate on a spending bill that would fund the United States military.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went after Speaker Kevin McCarthy on MSNBC Wednesday, saying that the California Republican is a "liar" and a wimp in several different ways. Speaking to Ari Melber, Gaetz began by saying McCarthy is "lying like a dead dog" about the reason he and McCarthy are feuding. 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) could actually end up hurting the Republican Party's prospects, and his own, with the new impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, argued New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Tuesday's edition of CNN's "The Source."

With budget negotiations heating up and the far-right Republican Party House members clamoring for impeachment hearings on President Joe Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is entering the most fraught period of his already tenuous speakership.

A passage in the indictment against Donald Trump on allegations he tried to overturn the 2020 election has raised questions about the source of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and suggests more legal trouble could lie ahead for the former president, The Daily Beast reports.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) got into a fight on the floor of the House loaded with obscenities and threats of physical violence, according to sources that spoke to The Daily Beast.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is reportedly feeling the heat from former President Donald Trump over an apparent promise he made to expunge Trump's two impeachments. 

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) accused Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) of breaking U.S. laws in an effort to quash a House ethics investigation. 

A 13-minute documentary lampooning the shortest-tenured U.S. House speaker in 147 years, conceived and posted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), argues the chaos caused in the House or Representatives was "a gripping tale of power, perseverance, and triumph."

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) shouted down Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram after he pushed back on the idea that Democrats are to blame for ousting him as speaker. 

WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hasn't publicly made any moves to reach out to Democrats willing to reach across the aisle and work with Republicans. Indeed, McCarthy hasn't approached Democrats at all, according to some members who spoke to Raw Story. 

The bitter feud between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is reaching a boiling point as Gaetz has been leading a group of rebellious Republicans toward a government shutdown.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reportedly embracing drastic measures to avoid a government shutdown, including a massive 70 percent cut to a program that provides assistance to lower income families who have trouble affording heat during the winter.

It's looking more and more likely that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will have to face a motion to vacate in the coming weeks as rebellious Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) plot to oust him. However, The Messenger reports that McCarthy's allies aren't taking this potential challenge lying down and are working to crush the attempt to give him the boot.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday morning spent time justifying an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to members of his conference, although sources tell Politico's Olivia Beavers that he presented no new evidence against the president.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough thinks House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) should call his fellow Republicans' bluff on the legislative challenges he's staring down.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) this week claimed that former President Donald Trump was being prosecuted for his "thoughts" -- and a CNN panel on Friday took a hatchet to this argument. Host Phil Mattingly began by saying that McCarthy's claims had "no basis in reality"...

I don’t know about you, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy does not come off as a figure of genuine authority and respect. 

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is walking a tightrope in his attempt to embrace Donald Trump while remaining a distinct entity, and he's bound to fall, according to a former prosecutor.