- McCarthy is expected to be the next House speaker after the November midterm elections.
- The California Republican unveiled the plan Thursday, then publicly announced it Friday in western Pennsylvania with a group of fellow House Republicans including conservative firebrand and MAGA stalwart Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene.
- “Kevin McCarthy, who is supposed to be the leader of the Republican Party, is instead being led by a conspiracy theorist masquerading as a member of Congress,” Kinzinger said in a Twitter video, referring to Greene, a Georgia Republican.
- Kinzinger voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and is among the most outspoken critics of the former president and his supporters.