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.
