The House of Representatives has adjourned after failing to elect a new Speaker, leaving Kevin McCarthy’s political future hanging by a thread after Republican party infighting threatened to halt lawmaking in Washington.
On Tuesday, McCarthy became the first majority party leader in a century to falter in the first ballot, before he went on to lose two subsequent rounds of voting.
McCarthy secured 203 votes in the first round, 15 short of the 218 required to seize the Speaker’s gavel, after 19 Republicans voted against him. He did not improve his numbers in the second round, with his 19 opponents coming together to support Jim Jordan, the Republican congressman from Ohio who had formally nominated McCarthy for Speaker.
McCarthy lost a third round of voting after Byron Donalds, a congressman from Florida, switched allegiance to Jordan, bringing the votes against McCarthy to 20.
Voting was expected to resume on Wednesday afternoon. It remained unclear whether McCarthy would be able to build support and achieve the simple majority required to become Speaker. The House is constitutionally required to elect a Speaker and cannot start governing until one is selected..
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Kevin McCarthy is a US advisor for ''1 Trillion Trees.org'' - a World Economic Forum/UN organization that wants to plant one trillion trees worldwide as part of WEF's 30x30 land grab.
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