Many House Republicans are furious with a band of far-right rebels who they say are holding the party hostage by ejecting its nominee for speaker. But there’s one thing they’re so far unwilling to do: work with Democrats to elect a centrist speaker.
that led to their current wafer-thin majority.
The talks failed to produce a breakthrough Wednesday, and the House voted 216-214 to adjourn until noon Thursday. As Bacon and other McCarthy allies dangle the possibility of a bipartisan speaker to secure the votes to make him speaker, the anti-McCarthy faction is calling their bluff. "We have big items facing the country — everything from the debt ceiling to Ukraine to — obviously, we're going to have to run the government," said Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., the Democratic co-chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus."Right now, it's on their plate. This is on their side to figure out their housekeeping. They have to pick a speaker. But we all have a responsibility to run the country.
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