• Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who opposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during the speaker election until voting present in the 15th round, told Just the News that he gives McCarthy “an A for his work so far” in the new session of Congress.
• “I would give Speaker McCarthy an A for his work so far at the beginning of the 118th Congress, and we are in possession of far more tools that will help us get to those policy outcomes that we want,” Gaetz said in an interview Monday. “Look, I want strong borders. I want budgets that balance. And I want bureaucrats held in check. And now, as a result of what we went through in early January, we have the tools to evaluate spending legislation — not all together at once in some 4,000-page bill, but in individual appropriations bills.”

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