Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz nominated President Donald J. Trump for Speaker of the House on Thursday night. Gaetz had previously voted for Trump in other failed attempts by Rep. Kevin McCarthy to obtain the position.
Gaetz said when Trump was President, taxes were cut, regulations were slashed, energy was abundant, wages were rising, capital was returning from overseas and the economy was roaring.
“What a contrast to what we have seen from this administration now,” Gaetz said. “And so I rise to nominate Donald Trump for the position of Speaker of the House.”
Gaetz said there were “great moments” of bipartisanship during Trump’s term in the White House. Gaetz specifically highlighted the bipartisan effort on criminal justice reform that pass during the Trump administration.
He said Trump’s presidency actually resulted in meaningful progress for veterans’ issues.
“President Trump oriented our views on trade so that we actually put the American people first, not foreign interest abroad or special interest here at home,” Gaetz added.
He noted Trump’s offensive against China in the trade war. Trump stood with the farmers. And he stopped trying to find a new country to engage in war.
“President Trump, I believe is the first President of my lifetime that didn’t start any new wars,” Gaetz said. “This is an issue that I know unites some elements of the right and left for the benefit of our communities.”
Gaetz said the government and town has been “deeply corrupt” for far too long.
“The way people get leadership positions and chairmanships and opportunities to be able to morally preen has been by accepting lobbyist and special interest money and redistributing that money as currency for favors,” Gaetz said. “And that is not a criticism of either political party, it is a criticism of what we have allowed to happen in this place. And if we just go next man up on our side of the aisle we will reify that corrupt system and we will abandon the people who are expecting us to fight for them.”
Gaetz said he fears putting McCarthy in the chair for Speaker will not allow the necessary work to get done.
“It would be business as usual and the very same things that have paralyzed progress for both parties would continue to shackle us to never-ending failure,” he said. “We can be better than that.
“We also have to restore to the Speaker’s office an actual person that ought to be in the Speaker’s office, not the squatter who is currently there. And if the architect of the Capitol is listening, I sent a letter and I would like to know what the basis is to allow somebody to occupy the Speaker’s office who comes in second place 10 straight times. Is there like some basis in law or rule or precedent for that?
“And so I nominate President Trump because we must make our country great again and he can start by making the House of Representatives great again.”
Almighty God has a plan. If this is part of it, man cannot stop it.