Republicans voted by a narrow margin on Wednesday to nominate Scalise to replace McCarthy, but several lawmakers said after the closed-door meeting that they would not vote for him on the House floor. The number of hold-outs grew over the next 24 hours, making it clear that Scalise was nowhere close to securing the 217 votes he needed to secure the gavel.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Lmao “shared”

    They’re very definitely not friends these days.

    So sure, put them in a cage match with the speaker’s gavel in the middle of the arena. People would watch that, and it’d be a damn sight more useful than what the House has done recently - definitely since Monday; arguably since January 3, 2023.