{"id":53137,"date":"2023-12-06T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/business\/kevin-mccarthy-says-he-will-leave-congress-at-the-end-of-december\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:39:02","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-says-he-will-leave-congress-at-the-end-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=53137","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy says he will leave Congress at the end of December"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Simply sign up to the <!-- -->US politics &amp; policy<!-- --> myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=227a4a6e-3486-4dec-8ed4-26cfca3e5822&amp;concept-id=6f7d5d90-ac15-41fe-9e31-e69b42a013c6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Kevin McCarthy, the Republican congressman from California who was dramatically ousted as Speaker of the House in October, will leave Congress at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy said on Wednesday that he would not seek re-election next year, and instead cut short his two-year term in the House of Representatives and leave at the end of the year \u201cto serve America in new ways\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know my work is only getting started,\u201d McCarthy said in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. He vowed to \u201ccontinue to recruit our country\u2019s best and brightest to run for elected office\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s departure from Congress will leave House Republicans without one of their most formidable fundraisers as they try to hold on to control of the lower chamber in next year\u2019s elections. Republicans control the House by a razor-thin margin, and McCarthy\u2019s resignation will give them an even slimmer majority until a special election is held next year to fill his seat, representing California\u2019s central valley.<\/p>\n<p>His retirement caps a tumultuous year for the veteran member of Congress, who was only selected as Speaker on the 15th round of voting in January.<\/p>\n<p>In October he became the first leader in the history of Congress\u2019s lower chamber to be voted out of the job, after a rebellion by eight members of his own party.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s removal thrust the House into disarray, as Republicans for weeks failed to coalesce around a successor.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Johnson, a little-known Republican congressman from Louisiana and loyal ally of Donald Trump, was ultimately elected with the unanimous support of House Republicans as the new Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s own relationship with Trump, the former president and undisputed frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the White House in 2024, has been rocky at times.<\/p>\n<p>The two had a largely positive relationship when Trump was in the White House, with the then-president often referring to the California congressman as \u201cmy Kevin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But McCarthy reportedly said \u201cI\u2019ve had it with this guy\u201d after the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, before smiling in photos with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort just weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Trump endorsed McCarthy\u2019s bid for Speaker earlier this year, but stayed on the sidelines as Matt Gaetz, the Republican congressman from Florida, led the rebellion to oust him in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2022 election cycle, two McCarthy-aligned groups \u2014 the National Republican Congressional Committee and Congressional Leadership Fund \u2014 raised a combined $550mn on behalf of House Republican candidates, far more than the hauls of previous GOP leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/227a4a6e-3486-4dec-8ed4-26cfca3e5822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics &amp; policy myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican congressman from California who was dramatically ousted as Speaker of the House in October, will leave Congress at the end of the month. McCarthy said on Wednesday that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kevin McCarthy says he will leave Congress at the end of December | Prosfunds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the US politics &amp; policy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.Kevin McCarthy, the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=53137\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kevin McCarthy says he will leave Congress at the end of December | Prosfunds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the US politics &amp; 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