Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Party leader, failed for the sixth time in the speaker election to the US House of Representatives. For the first time in a century, the US House of Representatives has adjourned without electing a speaker.
Despite winning a clear majority in the House of Representatives in November’s election, the Republican Party is in crisis and embarrassment because it has not been able to elect a speaker from within its own party. McCarthy faces opposition from 20 hard-line conservative members of the party. The two have not been on good terms since they spoke out against Trump during the Capitol attack. That’s why Trump kept silent at first in the new crisis. Finally he tweeted ‘vote for Kevin, close the deal, take the victory’. Still, the anti-McCarthy in the party did not seem to budge. The House of Representatives must convene to pass important bills for the US, which is facing a financial crisis and high covid numbers. If the Speaker cannot be elected, the work of the House will come to a standstill. Oath of oath of new members shall not be administered. Democrats are happy with the infighting in the Republican Party. President Joe Biden called on the Republican Party to end its approach of embarrassing America in front of the world. A hundred years ago in 1923, the US House of Representatives was going through a similar situation. After 9 rounds of voting, Frederick H. Gillette was the speaker. It remains to be seen whether McCarthy’s consensus talks will bear fruit or whether a new candidate will be announced.