Nineteen House Republicans voted on Tuesday for someone other than Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to be the next speaker of the House.
Rep. Andy Harris voted for Zeldin.holdMembers of the House Freedom Caucus have sought to bring about reforms to the House in exchange for their potential support for McCarthy; however, they decided not to vote for McCarthy.
McCarthy has stood firm against Freedom Caucus members, believing that they did not negotiate in good faith. “I earned this job. We earned this majority, and God dammit we are going to win it today,” McCarthy reportedly“We have worked for a long time. I’ve been leader for four years. I came into this position [and] we had less than 200 members. We are now sitting in the majority,” McCarthyRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , who is backing McCarthy’s bid for speaker, said that Rep. Matt Gaetz and other detractors of McCarthy are not negotiating in earnest.
Greene said that Gaetz has supported former Rep. Paul Ryan’s bid for speaker in prior congressional terms:Now that the speaker vote failed, there will likely be multiple speaker votes until the House elects a new leader.
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