Today's recap
The House of Representatives remains in limbo and without a speaker, despite far-right Ohio representative Jim Jordan trying his best to rally holdout colleagues.
With the House in its weeks-long gridlock, there are increasing calls from Democrats and Republicans to expand the powers of the chamber’s acting speaker, North Carolina’s Patrick McHenry, so that the chamber can carry on with business.
The chaos in the House of Representatives comes at a precarious moment on the world stage amid the ongoing conflicts between Israel and Hamas, as well as Ukraine and Russia.
Former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell is taking a plea agreement in Georgia’s Fulton county and will plead guilty in the Georgia election subversion case.
The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, said that the justice department was monitoring an increase in reported threats against Jewish, Muslim and Arab communities.
Joe Biden is set to deliver a primetime address tonight at 8pm ET in which he will discuss the US response to the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.
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Jim Jordan’s bid for speaker appears to still be an uphill climb.
Per reporters at Capitol Hill, he did not take any questions from the press after meeting with holdout Republicans.
Mike Lawler, the New York Republican who voted against Jordan previously, issued a statement endorsing Patrick McHenry as an interim speaker. “In the absence of an immediate resolution, we must empower Speaker Pro-Tempore Patrick McHenry to serve as Speaker temporarily to allow us to get back to work,” he said.
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