BREAKING: Divided Republicans have failed for the third day in a row to fill the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House, and have adjourned for the day after Kevin McCarthy lost a string of votes.
The incoming Republican chairmen of the House’s Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence committees all said national security was at risk.“The Biden administration is going unchecked and there is no oversight of the White House,” Republicans Michael McCaul, Mike Rogers and Mike Turner wrote in a joint statement. “We cannot let personal politics place the safety and security of the United States at risk.
“When confidences are betrayed and leaks are directed, it’s even more difficult to trust,” he tweeted.Republican Party holdouts repeatedly put forward the name of Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, assuring the stalemate that increasingly carried undercurrents of race and politics would continue. They also put forward Republican Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, splitting the protest vote.
But those opposing McCarthy do not all have the same complaints, and he may never be able to win over some of them. Several Republicans appear unwilling to ever vote for McCarthy.still refusing to support McCarthy and leaving him far short of the 218 typically needed to win the gavel.
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