House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney’s vote to impeach former President Donald Trump is “going to become a difficulty.”
McCarthy, a California Republican, has resisted calls from some members of the conference to have the Wyoming congresswoman removed from her role as the No. 3 Republican in the House. However, he said that he has “concerns” about her decision.
“Look, I support her, but I also have concerns. She took a position as a No. 3 member in conference. She never told me ahead of time. One thing about leadership, if we’re going to work together, we should understand. We know that this is going to become a difficulty,” he said in an interview with Greta Van Susteren airing Sunday, according to the Hill.
“She can have a difference of opinion, but the one thing if we’re going to lead within the conference, we should work together on that as a whole conference because we’re representative of that conference,” McCarthy added. “So, I support her, but I do think she has a lot of questions she has to answer to the conference.”
The Washington Examiner reached out Cheney’s office for comment.
Following the siege against the Capitol, Cheney announced her support for impeachment and said of Trump that “there has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
Cheney herself has remained defiant in her desire to stay on as Republican conference chairwoman and dismissed those saying she should step aside.
“I’m not going anywhere,” she recently told reporters. “This is a vote of conscience. It’s one where there are different views in our conference. But our nation is facing an unprecedented, since the Civil War, constitutional crisis. That’s what we need to be focused on.”
