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Washington, United States — After floundering for weeks to pick a new speaker for the US House of Representatives, Republicans will hear Monday from nine fresh candidates vying to fill the leadership void that has paralyzed Congress.
But none looked close to the near-total Republican support needed to win the required 217 votes on the House floor and the sheer size of the massive field will make it even tougher for a unifier to emerge. It appeared last week that Trump ally Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, had momentum but his bid for the gavel collapsed after he lost three straight House floor votes by increasingly large margins.
Trump — who backed Jordan — told reporters ahead of a campaign event in New Hampshire that he had spoken to Emmer over the weekend, but did not plan to endorse him. And the government will shut down — with hundreds of thousands of workers sent home without pay — unless lawmakers can approve the 2024 federal budget by November 17.
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