Matt Gaetz responds after Trump urges support for McCarthy: ‘Sad!’  —  Gaetz says Trump's endorsement of embattled Republican ‘change neither my view of McCarthy nor Trump nor my vote.’  —  Newt Gingrich rips Republican holdouts as ‘blackmailers’: 'Don't know what their endgame is'

One House Democrat Wants to Strike a Deal to Make McCarthy Speaker  —  House Democrat Brad Sherman floated a potential deal Wednesday that would trade Democratic votes to make beleaguered Republican Kevin McCarthy the speaker of the House in return for rules aimed at preventing a US government shutdown or a debt limit crisis.

Ocasio-Cortez on conversations with Gosar, Gaetz: ‘In chaos, anything is possible’  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday said, “In chaos, anything is possible,” after she was seen in floor conversations with GOP Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.) during the vote for House Speaker.

McCarthy loses House speakership in 4th round, splitting votes with Jeffries, Donalds  —  House Freedom Caucus nominated Rep. Byron Donalds  —  The House voted to elect a speaker three times Tuesday after McCarthy repeatedly failed to secure enough support to win a majority of members present.

The humiliation of Kevin McCarthy  —  Post-policy Republicans prefer posturing and tormenting each other to governing.  —  Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy went down to humiliating defeat in his bid to take the speaker's gavel Tuesday.  Not satisfied with that, he then went down to humiliating defeat again.

‘Moderate’ Republican Jason Stephens snatches Ohio House Speaker position in surprise upset  —  Moderately conservative Republican Jason Stephens, with the help of the Democratic Party, snatched the coveted Ohio House Speaker job Tuesday from a far-right lawmaker who was already elected speaker in a non-official party vote.

Trump fails to move GOP rebels blocking Kevin McCarthy for speaker  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., doesn't care that former President Donald Trump backs Kevin McCarthy for speaker of the House.  —  “Endorsements don't matter to me,” said Norman, one of 20 Republican holdouts …

What the Speaker Fight Says about the Republican Party  —  On the menu today: The fight over whether Kevin McCarthy becomes the next speaker of the House continues, and after three failed votes yesterday, his prospects don't look great.  The notion that 19 or 20 Republicans could force …

'There isn't any House': Speaker drama ripples throughout basic congressional function  —  WASHINGTON—As the second day of the 118th Congress dawned Wednesday, one chamber technically had no members.  —  “There isn't any House,” said California Democratic Representative Anna Eshoo, who has served since 1993.

Chaotic House Speaker Race Makes Debt-Ceiling Breach More Likely  —  Following the election, Yuval Levin observed that the dynamics of the new Congress would significantly complicate efforts to raise the debt ceiling.  The chaotic race for House speaker makes the possibility of the kind of breach that he wrote about much more likely.