2023-10-20 20:11:32
Republican elected officials withdrew their support for Jim Jordan, close to Trump, this Friday in a secret ballot and announced that they would meet on Monday to nominate a new candidate for the post of “speaker“.
A few hours before, 25 Republicans voted once morest the elected representative from Ohio, who suffered his third failure in four days to be elected to the perch. The position has been vacant since the historic impeachment of Kevin McCarthy on October 3, following divisions between moderate Republicans and Trumpists.
For almost three weeks, the lower house of the American Congress, supposed to be one of the most powerful parliaments in the world, has not been able to vote on any bill.
“We are in a very bad situation“, a admis Kevin McCarthy.
“Situation grave“
It is in this context of blockage in the House and political chaos that Joe Biden requested on Friday a budgetary increase of 105 billion dollars in particular to support Ukraine and Israel, allies of the United States involved in major international crises, and respond to the challenges posed by immigration at the country’s southern border.
“We need to unblock the House. I expect the Senate to begin work on President Biden’s national security package as soon as possible“, Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the Democratic parliamentary group in the House of Representatives, told reporters.
“If the House is not unblocked, it will bog down needlessly and lives will be put in danger. This is a serious situation“, he insisted.
To get out of the crisis, Jeffries called for finding a “speaker” which results from a choice coming from both political sides.
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