House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy doesn’t think the method in which the House GOP stripped a congressional ethics watchdog of its independence was politically expedient, but he’ll vote for the change anyway.

McCarthy, R-Calif., told MSNBC Tuesday he didn’t support the decision to place the independent Office of Congressional Ethics under the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee, making Congress in charge of policing itself on ethics violations. He said it should have been done in a different venue in order to have better buy-in from Democrats.