Arch-conservative Jim Jordan lost the election for speaker for the third time, and now his party is withdrawing his candidacy. The House of Representatives therefore remains unable to act.
The parliamentary crisis in the USA is dragging on and on. The arch-conservative Republican Jim Jordan also failed in the third attempt in the search for a new chairman of the House of Representatives. Now the Republicans voted to remove him as their candidate for office. This is what the BBC writes, citing two MPs.
On Friday, the number of Republican MPs who refused to approve former President Donald Trump’s ally increased. Previously, 20 Republicans voted against Jordan on Tuesday, then 22 on Wednesday and now there were 25.
Jordan only received 194 of the 429 votes cast. President Joe Biden’s Democrats voted unanimously for their group leader Hakeem Jeffries.
The House of Representatives has been without a chairman since Republican Kevin McCarthy was deposed by a rebellion by right-wing hardliners in his own party on October 3rd – and has therefore been paralyzed for two and a half weeks. Most recently, the plan to give executive chairman Patrick McHenry more powers for a few months so that the chamber can pass laws again failed.
Without a speaker, the House of Representatives remains unable to act
The blockade of Congress, in which the Republicans only have a narrow majority, comes at a time of major international crises. US President Joe Biden asked Parliament on Friday for more than 75 billion dollars (around 71 billion euros) in military aid for Israel and Ukraine. However, the financial resources cannot flow without the consent of the House of Representatives, which is currently unable to act.
Jordan, who was supported by Trump, was nominated by the Republican faction for the third-highest state office a week ago. Previously, the actually nominated majority leader, Steve Scalise, had thrown in the towel due to a lack of support within his own ranks.
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Known for sharply right-wing positions and an aggressive political style, Jordan is rejected by many moderate Republicans and is unelectable for the Democrats. A way out of the crisis was recently not in sight.
