Roll Call - Gaetz introduced legislation in 2023 that would eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a $1.6 billion agency tasked with regulating firearm dealers and helping fight gun crimes...
And speaking at a conservative conference in March 2023, Gaetz said: “We either get this government back on our side or we defund and get rid of, abolish the FBI, CDC, ATF, DOJ — every last one of them if they do not come to heel.”...
And Gaetz introduced bills that sought to pare back criminal consequences against those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and go after the funding for Special Counsel John L. “Jack” Smith’s office, which bought the two federal criminal cases against Trump.
New Republic - The remarkably unpopular Florida politico was nominated by Donald Trump to become the country’s attorney general on Wednesday, a decision that would effectively hand the keys to the Justice Department to a man facing sex trafficking allegations. But before that happens, Gaetz has to be confirmed by the Senate—and that seems increasingly unlikely, according to members of the upper chamber.
Assuming that all Democrats will vote against Trump’s nominees, the president-elect can only afford to lose three Republican votes to squeeze his candidates into the executive branch. But Gaetz faces immense opposition from inside the party, reported The Wall Street Journal, with far more than three votes planning to oppose the MAGA bro’s nomination. Estimates predict that those against Gaetz range from 12 Republican “no” votes to upward of 30.“It won’t even be close,” one source told the Journal.
Few conservatives were willing to point out the underlying reasons behind Gaetz’s unlikely candidacy, but they appeared to understand the 42-year-old wouldn’t hold up during the grueling confirmation process.
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