McCarthy Says He Won’t Seek a Deal With Democrats to Keep His Post

House Democrats were set to meet on Tuesday morning to consider whether to bail out Mr. McCarthy. Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader, told CNBC in an interview on Tuesday that the party would “come to a collective decision at the end.”

Mr. Jeffries gave few hints as to how he might advise his caucus to vote, but he said he had heard from “a lot of members of the House Democratic caucus that there are real trust issues with the leadership of the Republicans overall” and issued a laundry list of grievances they had with Mr. McCarthy’s leadership.

“We dealt with a variety of different things, including coming into the session last month, and the first official act was to launch this illegitimate impeachment inquiry, presumably at the direction of the former twice-impeached insurrectionist-in-chief, Donald Trump,” Mr. Jeffries said. “These are all the challenges that I think we confront.”

The proceedings set to play out on Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on when Mr. McCarthy chooses to force a vote, have taken place only once before in the House of Representatives, in 1920. They are the culmination of a monthslong power struggle between Mr. McCarthy and a group of far-right lawmakers who tried to block his ascent to the speakership in January and have tormented him ever since, blocking his efforts to keep the government funded and the nation from defaulting on its debt.

Mr. Gaetz said he sought to subject Mr. McCarthy to the rare form of political punishment after the speaker relied on Democratic votes to push through a stopgap funding bill over the weekend to keep the government open. Mr. Gaetz and a bloc of hard-liners had refused to back a Republican-authored short-term spending plan to keep the government open.