Matt Gaetz Tells Charlie Kirk That House Republicans Are in Trouble

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz conveyed his anxiety to right wing commentator Charlie Kirk that House Republicans are in considerable danger of losing their slim majority—before the 2024 election.

During a recent appearance on Kirk’s podcast, Gaetz vented about recent developments in the House of Representatives, including the expulsion of disgraced New York Republican George Santos and the seeming lack of appetite among the GOP to impeach President Biden or any of his Cabinet, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Regarding Santos, whose expulsion Gaetz opposed: his absence reduces the House Republican majority to a mere three seats. The upcoming resignation of Ohio Republican Bill Johnson for a private sector job will further shrink that majority to two seats.

Gaetz lamented the state of affairs, suggesting that potential future GOP resignations or—grimmer still—the deaths of any older Republicans could hand Hakeem Jeffries’ the Speaker’s gavel without need of an election.

It was “tactically stupid,” he insisted, to expel Santos under these circumstances.

When Kirk asked about the probability of impeaching the President, Secretary Mayorkas, or any other Biden administration official despised by the right, Gaetz seemed to dismiss it out of hand, declaring that House Republicans lacked the “gumption” to vote for impeachment.

He also seemed to rebuke his colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene’s persistently unsuccessful impeachment efforts, indicating it drew attention to the GOP’s impotence.