In one of several cases, a Nebraska congressman said his wife has begun sleeping with a loaded gun after receiving increasingly menacing calls and texts.
: Republican infighting over who should become the next Speaker of the House has taken a vicious turn, with supporters of Donald Trump-ally Jim Jordan allegedly making death threats and vile phone calls to people who refuse to back him.
Jordan insists he did not endorse the actions, which many Republicans have condemned. But they nonetheless underscore the bitter civil war within the party, whose members have been unable to coalesce around a Speaker afterSince then, Congress has been paralysed, unable to deal with funding requests to support Israel or Ukraine, or broker a deal to avert a government shutdown in mid-November.
The to-ing and fro-ing was the latest turn in a drama reminiscent of the chaotic scenes that played out in January when it took McCarthy 15 voting rounds to secure the job among Republican discord. His reputation as a bomb thrower has not won him over with moderates in the party, while others simply don’t wish to reward the hardliners who ousted McCarthy in the first place. Some are also aggrieved at the pressure and threats they have faced to vote for him.
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