First GOP member threatens to remove McCarthy as Speaker.

Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) has threatened to end Kevin McCarthy’s tenure as speaker of the House if he goes through with his debt ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden.

Bishop is the first to make this threat, but 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.

Bishop did not say whether he would actually file a motion to vacate the chair and said he would not do such a thing by himself.

“I don’t make single decisions like that alone,” he said. “And so it depends on what the members who have courage [do].”

When asked by The Epoch Times for his reaction to Bishop’s threat, McCarthy seemed unfazed.

“Everybody has a right to do whatever they want,” he said.

During the press conference, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, would not say whether he would file a motion to vacate the chair.

“For me, I’m focused on defeating this bill,” he said.

The Deal Under Fire

The deal has come under fire from both conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats.

Freedom Caucus members blasted the deal as not sufficiently cutting spending in addition to levying other criticisms.

Some Freedom Caucus members slammed the deal as largely leaving Biden’s agenda—from the IRS to green energy subsidies—in place. Perry warned that…

• The deal would increase the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion
• It would fund the government through December 3
• It would provide disaster relief funding
• It would extend the eviction moratorium
• It would provide funding for Afghan refugees

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