Rep. Kevin McCarthy explains why House should empower interim speaker McHenry
Jim Jordan meeting with 22 GOP reps who opposed him for speaker in 2nd House vote: sourceJim Jordan fails again in second House vote as calls grow for interim fixfor the deposed Kevin McCarthy Thursday night, as a plan to give more power to Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry ran into resistance from hardline members and at least one conference leader.
Rep. Jim Banks , a firm Jordan ally, went further and called the McHenry option “the biggest FU to Republican voters I’ve ever seen.”“I will vote to support Jim Jordan for Speaker on the House Floor,” House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik said after throwing cold water on the McHenry resolution.“We’re handing our majority back over to the Democrats by going along with a power-sharing agreement. It’s absurd,” he told reporters.
The source also said Rep. Michael Bost unloaded with angry shouts at Gaetz, who led the motion to vacate McCarthy’s speakership.Tensions rose to a fever pitch as Rep. Matt Gaetz stepped up to address his colleagues, with one source telling The Post that nearly the “whole room booed” and “yelled at him to sit down.”“I was at the mic, I was speaking and Matt Gaetz tried to interrupt, so I told him to sit down and he sat down,” McCarthy recounted to reporters.
“We made the pitch to members on the resolution as a way to lower the temperature and get back to work,” Jordan told reporters after exiting the conference session.
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