Mccarthy made the announcement in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, a highly anticipated decision that comes two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership.
Mccarthy, who has been in office for seventeen years and spent much of it at the leadership table, touted his accomplishments in the op-ed and made clear he has no regrets about his tenure.
Mccarthy, who battled through fifteen grueling rounds to win the speaker’s gavel in January, was removed just nine months later after infuriating his right flank for putting a stopgap spending bill on the floor with the support of Democrats.
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