Gaetz claps back at McCarthy say­ing he’s not con­ser­v­a­tive: ‘McCarthy want­ed us to sur­ren­der every oth­er fight’

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R‑FL) said he “absolute­ly” has and will nev­er have any regret over spear­head­ing the oust­ing of for­mer House Speak­er Kevin McCarthy (R‑CA).
Fol­low­ing the his­toric 216–210 vote to toss him from the speaker’s chair, McCarthy addressed the media, specif­i­cal­ly call­ing out Gaetz for not being a con­ser­v­a­tive.
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“When he says we’re not con­ser­v­a­tive because we didn’t vote to secure the bor­der, I think that does mer­it a response,” Gaetz said. “We passed a Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty bor­der bill that would have required E‑Verify with a host of oth­er reforms. Then, on a con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion, Kevin McCarthy want­ed us to sur­ren­der every oth­er fight — Jack Smith, weaponized gov­ern­ment, every­thing else going on — just to iso­late the bor­der thing.”
“Now, I don’t believe that the way con­ser­v­a­tives get ahead is sur­ren­der­ing every­thing but the bor­der in order to address the bor­der,” he con­tin­ued. “What Kevin McCarthy believes about gov­ern­ing is that we have to uti­lize con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tions and if the con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion is con­ser­v­a­tive enough, if you hang some bells and whis­tles on it, that that real­ly ought to paci­fy peo­ple who are right-lean­ing through­out the coun­try. I believe that th …