Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he won’t run for re-election and will exit Congress at the end of the year, closing the California Republican’s tumultuous political career.

R ep. Kevin McCarthy, the former House Speaker who was ousted from the position by members of his own party, announced on Wednesday that he will resign from Congress at the end of the year.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says he will retire from the House of Representatives at the end of this year, departing before the end of his term. McCarthy announced his plans in an essay published in the Wall Street Journal.

Two months after his historic ouster as House speaker, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his seat.

Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican member of the House of Representatives who served as speaker of the House from the start of the year until he was removed from the position in early October, has announced that he will not seek reelection and will depart from Congress entirely at the end of December.

"I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways," McCarthy wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal​.

Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his congressional seat in California.