The House Republican majority is stuck, one week after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with lawmakers unable to coalesce around a new leader in a stalemate that threatens to keep Congress partly shuttered indefinitely.
On Tuesday evening, two leading contenders for the gavel, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, were addressing colleagues behind closed doors at a candidate forum. But they appeared to be splitting the vote.
McCarthy, meanwhile, was openly ready to reclaim the gavel he just lost, but was seen by many as a longshot option unlikely to win back the handful of hardliners who just ousted him.
I feel like if the House has no Speaker for over a year, shit would fall apart more than even Republicans could stand. We’ll get within a week or two of the next shutdown deadline, and they’ll finally put someone up there.
Yep, shooting themselves in the foot as there will be no time to negotiate properly. So they will either accept and move on, or cause another shutdown.
Great, now I’m thinking about the possibility of a few of the R’s signing on for Hakeem Jefferies and then immediately refusing to negotiate, causing the shutdown just so they can blame dems
Only republicans would fall for that shit, and they’re a total loss to the country, anyway. You’re worried about sunk costs.
It’s not the “blame the dems” part I care about, it the “intentionally shutdown the govt while acting like a bunch of toddlers (again)” part that bugs me
That’s a good call.
What’s the over/under today?