Jim Jordan, the architect of that 2013 shutdown, failed to get a majority to become speaker, leaving the House still shuttered.
Rep. Jim Jordan , center, is seen after he failed to become speaker of the House after the first round of voting on Tuesday. On Oct. 17, 2013, federal agencies fully reopened after a 16-day shutdown of the entire government — the longest continual stretch in which the entire workforce went with threat of no pay.
Until 20 Republicans stepped in and declared that common sense had to prevail. They blocked Jordan’s speaker bid by voting for a collection of other GOP officials, leaving him trailing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries by 12 votes, 212-200, and a full 17 votes shy of the simple majority required to win the gavel.After hours of closed-door huddles and phone calls to the holdouts, Jordan emerged from a first-floor office to declare that he would try again Wednesday morning.
The chamber adjourned, incapable of taking any action until electing a speaker — the 14th straight day without a functioning branch of government. If Republicans cannot elect a speaker by Friday, the House shutdown will eclipse the 2013 shutdown of the federal government in duration. About a half-dozen more opposition votes came from Republicans in swing districts, where Jordan’s pugilistic conservatism falls out of step with voters. And a couple of others are just upset with how a tiny minority on the far-right flank treated Rep. Kevin McCarthy , who was booted out of the speaker’s office two weeks ago, and Scalise, who withdrew last week as the nominee.
Rather than bow out gracefully, like Scalise did last week and McCarthy did eight years ago when Jordan kneecapped his first bid for speaker, Jordan decided to fight his way to the House floor.Donald Trump bulldozed his way to the 2016 Republican presidential nomination by winning state after state with a plurality of the vote, as the majority voted for a variety of anti-Trump candidates.
An overwhelming majority of the House, including Democrats, wanted to keep the government open, but the House conservatives worked with Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee so that they could also filibuster efforts to move bipartisan spending bills.The government did shut down, and the public overwhelmingly blamed Republicans. The strategy failed.
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