‘Let’s have that fight’: McCarthy and Gaetz go to war over shutdown deal

Far-right congressman says he will move to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker over deal to avert shutdown to rip the Bandaid off'

Simmering hostility between Republicans over the bipartisan deal that averted a government shutdown descended into open political warfare on Sunday, a rightwing congressman saying he would move to oust Kevin McCarthy and the embattled House speaker insisting he would survive.

We need to rip off the Bandaid. We need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy," the Florida representative Matt Gaetz told CNN's State of the Union, saying he would file a motion to vacate" in the next few days.