The Republican Speaker debacle is FAR from over
Assume nothing.
The big news out of Washington Thursday is that Jim Jordan is (mostly) suspending his bid to be Speaker of the House — and getting behind a push to extend Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry’s governing power through January.
You might be tempted to assume that Jordan’s decision effectively ends the chaos in which the Republican-led House has found itself in for the past two-plus weeks — providing an off-ramp for the paralyzed GOP.
But, I’d be very careful making such an assumption. Here’s why.
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