Jim Jordan, who earlier on Thursday indicated that he would pause speaker balloting and back the idea, now could reverse course and go to the floor again.
House Republicans are abandoning a push to empower a temporary speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry, after it faced fierce pushback within the party on Thursday.
As they left a nearly four-hour internal meeting about the idea, multiple Republicans said there was no virtually no path forward. The proposal, which may still come back for a vote at some point, would have allowed McHenry and the GOP to reopen the House after 16 days without a speaker.
Many Republicans view that task that many viewed as critical, given pending deadlines on government spending and an imminent White House aid request for Israel and other nations in crises.
“It certainly does not have the support in conference and to bring it to the floor. It would have to survive with Democratic votes,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said. “We’re currently sitting on a tinderbox. So to do that, it would set off the fuse that would certainly end in civil war within the GOP, and I don’t believe that anybody wants to do that.”
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) summed it up succinctly: “The resolution is dead.”
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House Republicans are abandoning a push to empower a temporary speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry, after it faced fierce pushback within the party today.
After an hourslong meeting about the idea, multiple Republicans said there was virtually no path forward. https://t.co/MwYSduxDlM
— POLITICO (@politico) October 19, 2023
Where we are:
1) Republicans can't elect anyone Speaker
2) Republicans won't work with Dems to empower a temporary speaker
3) Republicans are screaming at each other
4) Republicans are getting death threats from Republican voters
5) Republicans say all this is the fault of Dems— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 19, 2023
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