Washington, 4 January (EFE).- The President of the United States, Joe Biden, described this Wednesday as “shameful” the blocking of the election of the new Speaker of the House of Representatives due to internal divisions among Republicans.
Ahead of his trip to Kentucky, the president told reporters on the White House grounds that the House lockdown was not his “problem,” but warned Republicans that Tuesday’s show was “shameful” and that “the rest of the world is watching.” “.
The House of Representatives will reconvene this Wednesday to try to elect its president for the 118th legislative session after failing the previous day in an unprecedented move in the last century.
The Republican leader in the House of Representatives, Californian Kevin McCarthy, lost three consecutive votes to become the new “speaker” due to a rebellion by the hardest wing of his party, grouped in the so-called Freedom Caucus.
McCarthy failed to win the 218 votes needed to be elected on either vote, even though Republicans enjoyed a majority of 222 seats they won in last November’s midterm elections.
The small group of ultra-conservative congressmen criticize McCarthy for not negotiating with them a reform of the rules of debate or the names for the leadership of congressional committees in the new legislature.
McCarthy attacked the press against the comrades thinking more of “positions for themselves than in the country”, but warned that he would “go nowhere” and fight to the end.
Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) broke his silence on Wednesday, urging his uncompromising supporters to unblock the situation and vote for McCarthy.
The ordinance provides no alternative but to continue re-running votes until someone achieves the majority needed to replace previous House Speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
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