Rep. Kevin McCarthy told his fellow Republicans “I earned this job” during a heated conference meeting Tuesday morning, just hours before the full chamber was expected to vote on his bid to be speaker of the House.

“I earned this job,” said McCarthy (R-Calif.). “We earned this majority, and God damn it, we are going to win it today.”

However, the GOP leader also admitted that he won’t have the 218 votes likely needed to win on the first ballot, according to CNN, but vowed not to stand down if his initial bid fails.

​“I’m not going to go away,” McCarthy said to his colleagues. “I’m going to stand until the last four friends stand with me.”

Sources inside the room also told the news outlet that McCarthy made it clear he will no longer engage in negotiations with a handful of hardline Republicans who oppose him becoming speaker.

One of those holdouts, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, responded to McCarthy’s words by bluntly saying, “This is bulls—.”

At another point during Tuesday’s meeting, McCarthy reportedly told another resister, Chip Roy of Texas, that “you don’t know how to say ‘yes.'”

“What’s left?” McCarthy asked a third opponent, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-Pa.). “What do you want?”

The sticking points, according to Perry, include guaranteed committee slots and subcommittee chairmanships for Freedom Caucus members — which McCarthy has declined to grant.

Punchbowl News also reported Tuesday morning that Perry, Boebert and another anti-McCarthyite, Matt Gaetz of Florida, wanted the leader’s blessing to form a separate legal entity to pursue lawsuits against the Biden administration and other parties.

According to McCarthy, Gaetz also warned that he would be content for House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be elected speaker, which could happen if members vote to award the gavel to whoever gets a plurality of votes rather than a majority.

The backlash against McCarthy’s opponents from the rest of the conference was swift, with Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) warning those who vote against McCarthy that they will not be seated on any committees, adding that wasn’t a “threat, that’s a promise,” Politico reported.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) described the holdouts to CNN as “enemies” and “narcissists” who have “made it clear that they prefer a Democrat agenda than a Republican.”

“We will not vote for anyone else but McCarthy,” Crenshaw added. “These people think they’re stubborn, we’re more stubborn.”

McCarthy himself told reporters after emerging from the closed-door confab that he was willing to sit through multiple ballots to secure the speaker’s gavel.

“I will always fight to put the American people first, not a few individuals that want something for themselves,” he said. “So we may have a battle on the floor. But the battle is for the conference and the country and that’s fine with me.”

Gaetz dismissed McCarthy’s previously reported concessions to the Freedom Caucus as “a handful of ‘howdys’ and a mouthful of ‘much obliged.'”

“At this moment, we would prefer to have a unity of purpose,” Gaetz added, “but we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight.

“There’s very little difference between Nancy Pelosi and her California delegation-mate that seeks the gavel and we want change, because this town is broken.”

Boebert, for her part, insisted that Freedom Caucus proposals pushing legislation to increase border security and term limits for lawmakers had been ignored by McCarthy. 

“This is not a personal wish list. This is not something that is unreasonable. This is just for the American people. This is fair for the American people,” she said. “And so now here we are being sworn at instead of being sworn in.”