Matt Gaetz Says Democrats ‘Scared’ of Trump Running for Next House Speaker – By Samantha Lock (Newsweek) / July 26 2021
Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has suggested that Democrats are “scared” of any possibility former President Donald Trump will run to become the next House Speaker.
Gaetz made the remark following Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Brendan Boyle’s introduction of the MEMBERS Act, which would require that only elected members or delegates be eligible to serve as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“The Speaker of the U.S. House is second in the United States presidential line of succession,” Boyle said in a statement to the press released last week. “That Donald Trump’s name would even be tossed around as a potential speaker in the people’s house, should serve as an alarm bell that our current requirements need to be amended in the name of protecting our nation and our democracy. As such, our laws should mandate that the Speaker be a member of the U.S. House.”
