WASHINGTON, Oct 18 — US lawmakers rejected hard-line conservative Jim Jordan’s bid for speaker of the House of Representatives in the first round of voting yesterday,...
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Jordan, who is backed by scandal-engulfed former president Donald Trump, was defeated by 20 Republicans who joined every Democrat to deny him the gavel. But Scott Perry, chairman of the hard right House Freedom Caucus that Jordan helped launch, said he was “pretty confident” the Ohio congressman could secure the gavel.“I feel like Jim Jordan is an NCAA champion wrestler who’s wrestled a lot of rounds,” Perry told reporters, in a nod to Jordan’s college sporting achievements.
But the House, which has been paralyzed since McCarthy’s ouster earlier this month, will not be able to approve new funding until a new speaker is in place.
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