Jordan Loses Second House Speaker Vote as Republicans Remain Divided The New York Times

Table Of Content

• Calmes: That scowl. The gag order. Frightened jurors. Who’s on trial, a former president or a mob boss?
• Jordan is making progress with New York Republicans — but it is still not nearly enough to win speakership
• DeSantis, Trump meet to make peace, plan fundraising
• Kevin McCarthy gives cheeky answer for his newest government gig
• Next House speaker vote expected at 10 a.m. ET Friday, Jordan's office says
• College financial aid extension in the works for California students hurt by FAFSA mess

"I don't think that it's likely to come up because that opens up a different can of worms," Mast told reporters. While speaking to reporters, Cole paused very briefly and said the conference is having an “extended discussion” about what to do. Leaving the Republican meeting, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said the resolution to empower McHenry appears dead. Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, said he was not surprised at the pushback from fellow Republicans on his proposal to elect Patrick McHenry as speaker pro tempore.

Calmes: That scowl. The gag order. Frightened jurors. Who’s on trial, a former president or a mob boss?

House Majority Whip James Clyburn said "yes, yes" when asked on MSNBC if he thought Pelosi would be re-elected as Speaker. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who joined Clyburn in the live interview, could be heard chuckling when Clyburn was asked the question. If this math holds in the later roll call, that means there are 428 members (220 Democrats and 208 Republicans).

Jordan is making progress with New York Republicans — but it is still not nearly enough to win speakership

The company has also encouraged its users to contact Congress, and some lawmakers have received profanity-laced calls. But the bill hasn’t been brought for a standalone floor vote in the GOP-led House amid criticism from some Republicans who say the program subsidizes households that already had internet service. They also pointed to findings from the FCC’s internal watchdog last year that providers failed to comply with the program’s rules and improperly claimed funds. Because of its Chinese ties, TikTok has been a political football in the United States for years, as well as in other countries (including India, where it’s been banned since June 2020).

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The holdouts have also heard from conservative New York donors in recent days encouraging them to get on board with a Jordan speakership, sources say. Jordan, the GOP’s latest nominee for speaker, received 199 votes; that was one net vote fewer than he received on Tuesday and a sign that Jordan is bleeding support rather than winning over his detractors. Compared to the first ballot, he lost four votes, flipped two in his favor and added one who was initially absent. Three Democratic lawmakers told NBC news that Minority Leader Jeffries has told the caucus he wants to check with the GOP one more time on the potential terms. The red lines on anyone they empower are that he or she voted to certify the election — which McHenry did — and agrees to support the original debt limit deal struck between the White House and Kevin McCarthy.

With one Republican absent Tuesday, Jordan cannot afford to lose more than three GOP votes. Jordan has now lost well over the three GOP votes he could spare in his quest to become House speaker. The votes against Jordan for House speaker are looking to be more than his allies were expecting. The Jordan holdouts are a mix of pragmatists, ranging from seasoned legislators and committee chairs worried about governing to newer lawmakers from districts where their voters back home prefer President Joe Biden to former President Donald Trump. The Ohio congressman did even worse than Kevin McCarthy did on the first balloting of his election back in January. It takes a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting.

They have given no indication that they even have demands that Jordan could meet — in fact, they reportedly told him in a meeting on Thursday that they would never support him, regardless of what he may offer. The letter Gaetz is circulating bears the names of all eight anti-McCarthy members, but a spokesman for Buck said his name was included erroneously. Buck has voted for Majority Whip Tom Emmer, not Jordan, in all three rounds of voting for speaker. Jordan lost the closed-door, secret-ballot vote on whether he should remain the party's nominee, with just 86 of his fellow Republicans saying he should and 112 saying he shouldn't, according to several lawmakers. Once a speaker candidate wins a majority of the vote, the clerk will announce the results of the election. The chamber cannot organize until it has a speaker since that person effectively serves as the House’s presiding officer and the institution’s administrative head.

Next House speaker vote expected at 10 a.m. ET Friday, Jordan's office says

The vote, in which Jordan failed to secure a majority of the full House, was a disappointment for Jordan’s allies who had expressed hopes that the number of holdouts would be in the single digits. Rep. Jim Jordan failed to win the House speakership on his first bid Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican. House Democrats rallied behind Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York as their pick for speaker of the House on Tuesday, uniting — again — around a liberal lawyer and disciplined political tactician as the face of their opposition to the Republican majority. Still others were deeply loyal to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted by a band of right-wing rebels mostly allied with Mr. Jordan, or simply stung by the poor treatment of Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana.

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The House Johnson now leads also will have to certify the winner of the 2024 presidential election. "I hope they will not move forward with that," he said of the GOP trio that is sponsoring the motion to vacate resolution. "I think we ought to have a contest in November, a deliberative process to select, hopefully, the speaker of the House majority. But I don't think it'd be a wise course of action to do that now."

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Passing of the gavel

“Households across the country are now facing hard choices about what expenses they have to cut, including food and gas, to maintain their broadband access, with some households doubtful they can afford to keep their broadband service at all,” she wrote. Backers of the TikTok bill argue that it doesn’t restrict free speech, saying it only requires apps to be owned by a company that isn’t subject to the control of an adversarial foreign government. House Republicans have all but folded the Big Top on the Biden impeachment circus. Many months after opening an inquiry oddly based on nothing more than to-be-determined charges, Republicans have no hard evidence of an impeachable offense by the president.

Fallon said he supports Jordan, but could see the need for a new nominee if Jordan continues to fail to reach 217 votes. Jordan told reporters this afternoon that GOP members decided a resolution to empower McHenry "wasn't where we're going to go." And McHenry is unwilling to set a precedent that would give future temporary speakers the full power of speakers who are elected on the House floor. It could mean that the House wouldn’t need to elect speakers in the future.

It comes less than a week after 57 people were arrested and charged with criminal trespassing at an anti-war protest on campus. All of those protesters were later released from jail, and all charges were dropped. The Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has released a letter to Republican speaker Mike Johnson requesting consideration of a bipartisan bill to counter antisemitism. The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, has said no encampments will be allowed after at least five people were arrested at a protest at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday afternoon. The Biden administration announced that it “strongly opposes” a group of Republican-backed bills expected to be considered by the House this week that will target its environmental regulations.

There was speculation that Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene would trigger a motion to vacate the speaker after Saturday's vote. Greene first filed the motion to vacate resolution a month ago, in part over frustration with the speaker on how he handled a $1.2 trillion spending package. Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said lawmakers are having "productive" meetings, but voting could stretch into the weekend. Even a small majority would empower Republicans to launch investigations into the Biden administration and pass messaging bills to excite the base of Republican voters. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told NBC News that he would be willing to work with Democrats to elect a moderate Republican to the speakership if his party can’t coalesce behind a candidate.

Even if McCarthy is able to secure the votes he needs, he will emerge as a weakened speaker, having given away some powers and constantly under a threat of being voted out by his detractors. But he would also be potentially emboldened as a survivor of one of the more brutal fights for the gavel in U.S. history. The Senate and the White House are still controlled by Democrats and any spending bill passed will need Democratic support to become law and avert a shutdown. But what you hear from conservatives – at least in the minutes before and after Johnson won the speaker’s election – is they are willing to give some room for Johnson to maneuver in his new role.

That left him in need of repairing his relationship with Trump – now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee – after aiming attacks at him for months. Dozens of Texas state troopers in riot gear arrived at the campus on Monday afternoon and were seen forming a circle around the encampment, along with university police officers and Austin police officers, the Austin American-Statesman reported. At her ongoing briefing to reporters, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration does not support the international criminal court’s reported investigation into officials from Israel and Hamas. Texas governor Greg Abbott said no encampments will be allowed after at least five people were arrested by dozens of law enforcement officers, many in riot gear, at a protest at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday afternoon. GOP Rep. Ron Wright of Texas, who has cancer and has missed votes in the past, is planning to attend Sunday's votes as well, according to his office. Two Democrats who recently announced they tested positive with Covid-19 are coming to Sunday's votes.

House Republicans are exhausted by weeks of infighting over who will lead the conference and frustrated by the inability of the chamber to pass legislation, particularly in response to the Israel-Hamas war. Jordan was spotted heading into the speaker’s office, about a half hour before the vote was expected to start. He was abruptly appointed as speaker pro tempore last week following the unprecedented ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the top spot. Jordan typically skips a suit jacket, but he was donning one Tuesday as his colleagues prepared to vote on whether to elect him House speaker. The House went into recess shortly Tuesday afternoon after Jordan lost the first round of voting to become the chamber’s leader. He predicted they would cave and support Jordan by the end of the week after pressure from conservative voters who are being told to call member offices and close friends.

“The Republicans are unable to function right now,” Jeffries said late Tuesday. “All options are on the table to end the Republican civil war,” he added Wednesday. The backward movement indicates that Jordan’s hopes of securing the job are in peril, prolonging an unprecedented stretch of chaos for the Republican-controlled House, which has no clear path to electing a new leader. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., is ready to run for speaker if Jordan can’t get there, Bergman's spokesperson said. "We're going to talk with our, visit with our colleagues at 11. Then there will be a vote later," he said. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., expressed frustration over Jordan’s support for a plan to temporarily empower McHenry until January.