One day after withdrawing from consideration as Donald Trump’s attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz said he’s done with Congress.
“I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch,” Gaetz told Charlie Kirk on his radio show Friday. “I do not intend to join the 119th Congress.”
Gaetz, first elected to his House seat in 2016, has been a nuisance to his party’s leadership throughout his time in Washington, though he’s cultivated and maintained a close rapport with Trump.
The Florida firebrand — a moniker he named his podcast after — led the successful charge to dethrone former Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his perch atop the House Republican Conference. He’s drawn ire from House Republicans and Democrats alike, few of whom have a positive word to say about his style or substance.
