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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced his retirement from Congress after his ouster from the top job in the House of Representatives just a few weeks ago.
“I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways,” he wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
Beginning the piece by calling himself an “optimist” Mr McCarthy went on to note that he’s a the “son of a firefighter” and that he spent 17 years representing the same congressional seat where he once was “denied an internship”.
“Only in America,” he wrote. “I helped lead Republicans to a House majority—twice. We got more Republican women, veterans and minorities elected to Congress at one time than ever before. I remained cheerfully persistent when elected speaker because I knew what we could accomplish.”
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