Republican Jim Jordan has failed again for the third time in his attempt to lead the United States House of Representatives. The boycott of his own party colleagues, who do not want a representative of the most radical wing of the party and ally of Donald Trump, this Friday prevented Jordan from taking over the position of spokesperson of the party, a position for which he has been banned up to three times with this new attempt.
The conservatives have the majority in the Lower House, with 221 seats, and Jordan needed 215 votes to win the speaker position, but 25 legislators from his caucus ultimately voted for other candidates who had not even run.
"We need a speaker as soon as possible so we can get to work for the American people," Jordan had said at a press conference before the vote.
In this Friday's vote he got 194 votes. On Tuesday it achieved 200, the day it had the most support, and a day later 199, after the rejection of twenty Republicans opposed to a representative of the most radical wing of the party, an ally of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), get leadership.
Thus, the Lower House has been without a president for more than two weeks, after the previous one, also conservative Kevin McCarthy, was dismissed following a motion against him presented by the radical Matt Gaetz, from his own party, who does support to Jordan.
On the Democratic side, the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, aspires to the position, who in the two previous votes achieved the full support of his people, with 212 votes in his favor, and this Friday he won 210, due to two absences.
The Lower House remains blocked at a time when the budgets for the current fiscal year must be approved and when the US president, Joe Biden, has just asked Congress to approve an item of more than 100 billion dollars that includes aid of 14.3 billion for Israel and a new package for Ukraine for 61,400.
