New York Rep. Jerry Nadler on Tuesday said he and his fellow Democrats would vote to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy from his speakership, calling the California congressman “untrustworthy” and “a liar.”

Speaking with NY1’s Anthony Pascale Tuesday afternoon, Nadler, whose district includes Manhattan’s Upper West Side and Upper East Side, said he was “not going to vote for someone who’s proven himself untrustworthy and a liar many times over.” 

Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday officially launched an effort to push McCarthy out, two days after the House and Senate voted to prevent a government shutdown by passing a 45-day stopgap funding bill. 

Nadler's comments came shortly before the House was set to vote on Gaetz’ motion to remove McCarthy as speaker. 

“Well, there’s a civil war among the Republicans, clearly, and the speaker is untrustworthy,” Nadler said. “He’s proven himself untrustworthy and a liar time and time again.” 

Asked about Gaetz’ claim that McCarthy cut a “secret side deal” with Democrats on funding for Ukraine before the spending bill passed, Nadler said McCarthy “didn’t cut a deal with Democrats at all.” 

“He presented us with a bill, a 71-page bill. We asked him for 90 minutes to examine it, to read it, he said no. So we engaged in dilatory tactics,” Nadler said, noting that New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, “spoke for 50 minutes off the cuff” as part of that effort. 

“[So] that gave us time to read the bill, and it was a bill we could approve, so we voted for it,” he said. 

McCarthy, for his part, told reporters Tuesday morning that he believed he would likely be voted out — an assessment with which Nadler agreed. 

“Well, since I saw on TV this morning that five Republicans had said they were going to vote against him, and since we’re going to vote against him, I think he’ll be out,” Nadler said. 

Nadler on Tuesday also addressed Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s admission that he pulled a fire alarm in a U.S. Capitol office building on Saturday, a move some claimed was meant to stall the shutdown vote. 

Bowman “did not delay the vote,” Nadler said, adding that the “vote had already been called.” 

“There will be an investigation, and we’ll see. And he certainly shouldn’t be expelled for making a mistake on which handle to pull,” he said. 

Pressed to say whether he believed Bowman’s assertion that he triggered the alarm by mistake, Nadler declined to say for sure. 

“I don’t know. I wasn’t there. I can’t answer that,” he said. “There was certainly no reason to pull a fire alarm to delay the vote, or any other political reason.”