But there’s still no guarantee the GOP’s next pick for speaker will be able to secure the needed 217 votes on the House floor, as some lawmakers aren’t signing a “unity” pledge.
Three weeks after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster, House Republicans will gather behind closed doors Tuesday morning to nominate a new candidate for speaker — their third attempt to fill the job.
A GOP civil war has prevented Republicans from agreeing on a successor to McCarthy, R-Calif. The GOP’s two previous picks bowed out after they failed to secure the votes needed to win on the floor, leaving the House in a state of unprecedented chaos with a possible government shutdown less than a month away and wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East.
“The world is burning around us, and American leadership is necessary. And you can’t have the full complement of American leadership if the House of Representatives is not functioning,” Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press NOW," emphasizing the need for his colleagues to move on and coalesce around a new leader.
Because they see who is pulling the orange sandwich’s strings and want to suckle at the same teat. They value money over human life. I just like to hope there just half a dozen left that have some shred of humanity left in them. A pipe dream I know…
If there were, we wouldn’t be in this situation.