Even among his allies, Jordan’s shtick is beginning to “wear a little thin,” having possibly “worn out his welcome,” one senior House GOP member told Fox News’s Chad Pergram.
Jordan’s longshot bid to become speaker has only grown more fraught as the days have dragged on. In his first floor vote, 20 Republicans voted against him. In the second, another two joined their camp. And dozens more may be waiting in the wings to hop into this chorus of refusal: On Wednesday and Thursday, some party members warned that the tribe against Jordan is much larger than the no votes that have been tallied, with some alleging that more than half of the Republican members in the House are prepared to vote ‘no.’
Meanwhile, the House is unable to act on any policy without someone behind the gavel. On Friday, the White House asked Congress for $100 billion in an emergency national security funding package that would provide $61.4 billion to Ukraine, $14.3 billion to Israel and another $10 billion in humanitarian aid. But if Jordan spends the next few days still fruitlessly chasing a vote he seems destined to lose, there’s no telling when, or if, these measures will get approved.