The MTV had nothing to do with how many bills Gaetz sponsored/wrote. It had to do with the promises McCarthy made when he was elected speaker in January to cut federal spending back to pre-COVID levels, to avoid at all costs resorting to continuing resolutions (CRs) or omnibus spending bills, and instead return the House to "regular order."

The regular order of both chambers in Congress is to write a dozen major spending bills in committees during the spring, then debate, amend, and finally pass them in the summer and early fall before the Sept. 30 end of the federal government's fiscal year.

McCarthy abandoned those promises, according to Gaetz and his fellow opponents, in dealing with President Joe Biden in April by agreeing to a debt ceiling increase packet that also assumed federal spending would continue at or very near the hyper-levels that began in 2020 under President Donald Trump in response to the pandemic.

Then after April, House Republicans (ie. RINOS) were slow to move the 12 major appropriations bills, and when the traditional August recess approached, McCarthy was pressured by many of his most conservative colleagues to keep the House in session to work on the spending measures rather than allowing members to return to their home districts. But McCarthy declined to cancel the recess.

When the final week before the Sept. 30 deadline arrived, it brought with it the prospect of the federal government having to shut down for lack of a budget for 2024. McCarthy opted to seek a CR that would give the House enough time to finish passing the spending bills. Four of the twelve were passed, accounting for 74 percent of all discretionary federal spending.

The speaker offered a 30-day CR on Sept. 29 that would have cut federal discretionary spending by 8 percent and mandated stronger measures by the Biden administration to secure the U.S. southern border with Mexico. But Mr. Gaetz and 20 other Republicans voted against it, killing it.

On Sept. 30, the speaker offered a 45-day CR that kept current spending levels and it passed, thanks to Democrats voting with 91 Republicans in favor. Ninety-one GOPers opposed the 45-day CR.

"That was the last straw," another representative said, because it all but rendered McCarthy's January promises irrelevant, and put the House back on course to being forced by Senate Democrats and the president into agreeing to kick the can down the road yet again.

The last time Congress approved all 12 major spending bills in regular order was 1997.

THAT’S why Gaetz and the true Republicans in the House of Representatives did what they did.

Gaetz has not and does not offer any solutions. He doesn't even have a nominee for the next Speaker.
He and the Gang of 8 are arsonists. Their intent is to cause dysfunction. McCarthy couldn't make enough promises to avoid his fate bc chaos is the point.
The Gang of 8 doesn't have enough power to pass any legislation. They are opposed by members of their own caucus. They don't bother to even sponsor legislation.
True leadership offers solutions and a path through the chaos. That requires compromise. Lacking both the intellect and will to lead, all they give us is another dumpster fire.

Nearly $8T (25%) of the US debt came to us in 4 years of DJT.
It's a bad joke to pretend that Rs, in general, and the Gang of 8 specifically, care at all about balanced budgets. What they care about it is tax rebates for the wealthy, tax credits for corporations, and deregulation. DJT's sole legislative accomplishment was his tax bill. The tax rebate continues to add to the debt long after he is gone. Rail safety deregulation by 45 was a direct cause of the East Palestine rail incident. He claims he will fix everything if reelected, although he spent his last 4 years breaking things.
Sound bites and memes aside, the Gang of 8 offer nothing, no ideas, solutions and no path forward, not even a nominee for speaker. The Speaker Pro Tempore is a weak leader falling upward to his position. He is a partisan hack with no power to move anything in any direction. The Gang of 8 would love to see him "in control" through the foreseeable future.
Enjoy the dumpster fire.