As House Republicans struggle to govern, the party suffered another black eye Thursday evening when Majority Leader Steve Scalise abruptly withdrew from the speaker’s race amid hardened opposition from more than a dozen holdouts.
Tensions are boiling over among House Republicans frustrated at the impasse and concerned over the path forward.
The problem for me though is it’s not Jim’s fault so I’m just grappling with that,” he said.
House Republicans control just a razor-thin majority and a speaker candidate can only afford to lose four defections and still win.
We had a group that sabotaged Speaker McCarthy and now we’ve had a group that sabotaged Steve Scalise, both of them great people,” he said.
Persons:
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CNN, Republicans, Hamas, GOP, House Republicans, Republican, Ohio Republican, Judiciary
Locations:
Mark Alford of Missouri, Ohio, Jordan