Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert & Matt Gaetz promise to tank GOP speaker solution

Several far-right Republican Congress members are promising they’ll fight a proposed solution to the House’s speaker problem, including anti-LGBTQ+ extremists Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

House Republicans have already tried and failed to elect a speaker several times in the past two weeks, bringing House business to a halt just weeks before the federal government is set to shut down if Congress doesn’t pass several key spending bills. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) — the latest Republican speaker-designate — failed to get a majority or even a plurality of votes in two rounds of voting this week, despite Republicans holding a majority in the House.

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Jim Jordan is trying to strong arm his way to the Speakership, but he’s caught in the same doom loop as his predecessors.

In order to move forward with House business and avoid the November 17 government shutdown deadline, some Republicans have suggested giving acting Speaker Patrick McHenry (R-NC) more powers while the party tries to find a candidate who can get enough votes from their own party to win.

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This raised hackles from Jordan’s more ardent supporters.

“I’m against Speaker-Light, I’m against Bud Light,” Gaetz said yesterday, referring to the grudge conservatives are still holding against the beer brand for sponsoring an Instagram video in April made by a trans person. “I believe it is a constitutional desecration to not elect a Speaker of the House. We need to stay here until we elect a Speaker.”

Gaetz is the reason Republicans are in this situation in the first place. He introduced the motion to vacate earlier this month and then voted with seven other Republicans — and all the Democrats — to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the speakership.

.@RepMattGaetz Blasts Plan To Empower Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry

“I'm against Speaker-Light. I'm against Bud Light. I believe it is a constitutional desecration to not elect a Speaker of the House. We need to stay here until we elect a Speaker."

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