GOP Stumbles Into New Year.
The GOP continues to struggle to elect new House leadership and now will try again for a third day. (The Hill)
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“Leaving a meeting, McCarthy told reporters there was no deal but Republicans had “made a lot of progress” (The Hill). Thursday could be make or break.
Key lawmakers in the McCarthy resistance indicated that marathon talks aimed at reaching some agreement were bearing fruit. While they emphasized they were not ready to support McCarthy on Wednesday, they said they saw a shift from an earlier stalemate (The Hill and Roll Call).”
The House GOP is under increasing pressure to get in line and pick a Speaker to lead the chamber through the next several years under the Biden Administration. The failure to pick a leader is a remarkable and historic failure that is making many question if the GOP really wants to be in the majority or more comfortable being minority party antagonists. Whomever is chosen to lead will be in a much weaker position as an opposition party to the Biden Administration but that does not appear to be part of the calculations.
