“I gave up my career to come here to do something for America, to rebuild our military, to get spending under control, to secure our border - and here we are in this quicksand,” he said. Mark Alford, a freshman from Missouri, was far from alone in expressing his anger and disappointment. New nominees are to come forward for a candidate forum and internal party votes.Įxasperated with no easy solutions in sight, Rep. Majority Leader Steve Scalise said they would “start over” Monday. “We’re in a very bad place right now,” McCarthy said. Next steps were highly uncertain, as a wide range of Republican lawmakers started pitching themselves for speaker.īut it appears no one at present can win a GOP majority, leaving the House without a speaker and unable to function for the foreseeable future, an embarrassing blow to a central U.S. Their majority control floundering, Republicans left the private session blaming one another for the divisions they have created. The hard-charging Judiciary Committee chairman said House Republicans now need to come together and “figure out who our speaker is going to be.” House Republicans have no realistic or working plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month.Īfterward, Jordan said simply of his colleagues, “We put the question to them, they made a different decision.” The outcome left Republicans dejected, frustrated and sinking deeper into turmoil, another week without a House speaker bordering on a full-blown crisis.
Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel. WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans abruptly dropped Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, meets with reporters about his struggle to become speaker of the House, at the Capitol in Washington on Friday.
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