Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership Is on Life Support

For the first time in modern U.S. history, a sitting Speaker of the House is set to be forcibly removed after a revolt from his own members.

On Tuesday, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) lost a procedural vote that would have killed a resolution filed yesterday by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to remove him from the speakership—an indication that there is enough GOP support for an ultimate vote to oust him.

Although they represent a small minority of the House GOP ranks, thanks to the party’s paper-thin majority, the votes of 11 Republican lawmakers were enough to keep Gaetz’s motion to vacate the chair from being tabled.

Read more at The Daily Beast.