Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) will not hold a third ballot for speaker and will back Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) as an interim speaker until January 3, Punchbowl News reports.
Jordan will remain speaker designee and could hold a vote to be speaker at any time.
Washington Post: “Senior Democrats support the plan. It reopens the House as a new funding deadline approaches in less than a month. And with Jordan as the speaker designee, they are still able to frame Republicans as extremists backing an election denier as their leader.”
The only thing that forces action in Congress is a deadline. Expect McHenry to be extended over and over since Republicans still won’t be able to agree on a Speaker.
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