Rep. Meuser to Newsmax: Jordan to Back Scalise for Speaker

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House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will be backing the candidacy of Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., to be the next speaker, Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., told Newsmax on Wednesday.

Jordan lost a secret ballot vote to Scalise 113-99 earlier Wednesday, but it was unknown if Scalise could get the 217 votes needed to become speaker. House Republicans are trying to avoid a repeat of its selection of Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as speaker in January, when it took 15 ballots for him to secure the speaker's gavel.

"But now it turns out that Jim Jordan, because he's an enormously honorable person who puts country and certainly the party ahead of himself, has agreed to be supportive of Steve Scalise," Meuser said. "We'll see if there's going to be a vote today. I haven't heard definitively that things were going to be put off, but they might be just because there are a few members that are still very loyal to Jim.

Meuser said it's important for House Republicans to move forward because there is so much work to do in bringing a budget together and putting the spotlight back on the crises created by the Biden administration's policies.

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