The unprecedented vote to oust McCarthy has only led to more turmoil in the days since as Republicans have grappled with the fallout of the speakerless House . On Thursday former President Donald Trump was rumored to be going to Capitol Hill and floated the possibility of serving as speaker for a short period of time . Then he abruptly changed course and scrapped those plans endorsing Rep. Jim Jordan instead . On Friday morning a candidate forum on Fox News with Jordan and Majority Leader Steve Scalise was announced for Monday . By midday furious backlash from GOP rankandfile caused both both to pull out from the event . McCarthy provided his own whipsaw Friday afternoon when a flurry of reports emerged that he would resign after a new speaker was chosen . McCarthy denied to reporters that he had any plans to leave before the end of his term . The House Republicans will huddle behind closed doors to pick their choice for their own speaker on the floor to decide their next speaker on Wednesday . The candidates have racked up endorsements from their allies to try to position themselves as the consensus GOP candidate for the speakers race to be the consensus Republican candidate . But there is no indication Scalise or Jordan has locked up a deal with the Speakerless House majority leader . For Democrats the drama puts them in a waitandsee mode after they declined to come to McCarthys rescue . Democrats have limited options after they played their hand Tuesday by declining to come on McCarthrys rescue and now await whoever emerges as the next speaker and their negotiating partner . The Speakerless Congress . The speakerless Congress. The House. The Speaker’s House is the House. Democrats have a chance to decide what to do. The speaker. House. to decide. to choose between McCarthy. and the speaker. The speakers
No end in sight for GOP chaos ahead of divisive speaker’s race . House speaker’s
