Cami Mondeaux is a congressional reporter. She started with the Washington Examiner as a copy editor, later joining the breaking news team and eventually settling on the Congress beat. A Utah native, Cami graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City in 2021 and covered state government as a breaking news reporter for KSL News Radio. Follow her on X for the latest updates on news in the D.C. area and beyond: @cami_mondeaux.
Just days after ousting former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the top leadership position, Rep. Matt Gaetz signaled he’d be willing to raise the threshold for a future motion to vacate — but only if Republicans agree to vote on a number of political reforms.
“Ok. Let’s negotiate,” Gaetz posted on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter. “My GOP colleagues want to raise the threshold on the motion to vacate. This is a question for all of them. If we enact the reforms [Khanna] lays out here… How high would you like the MTV threshold to be? Because I’ll basically give you whatever you want on the MTV for this stuff.”
“There's a real crisis of confidence right now in our democracy that people have lost faith that Congress is working for them,” Khanna told the Washington Examiner in an interview last month. “We're just part of a system that has lost the faith of the American public. … To get involved in this kind of political reform effort has to be serious. And I would like to see candidates from both parties that embrace the reform agenda to this consensus.