Congress Playing Let’s Make A Deal for Speaker Job?

After days of seemingly endless votes in the U.S. House of Representatives, we still don’t have a new Speaker of the House. Now representatives from both sides of the aisle are playing Let’s Make A Deal.

We began our broadcast this morning just moments away from ballot number 12 on the House floor to select the next Speaker of the House. Now some Republican hold-outs are showing signs of potentially teaming up with Democrats to make a deal on selecting the next Speaker.

According to the Daily Beast, there are members of both parties working together to cobble together some sort of compromise on the role of Speaker:

The idea has been circulating around the U.S. Capitol this week like a hopelessly lost tour group: If Rep. Kevin a (R-CA) fails to win enough Republican votes to become speaker, Democrats could bail him out—or help elect a compromise candidate to the post.

Both Republicans and Democrats have dismissed the proposal as either an Aaron Sorkin-esque fantasy or a deliberate ploy from pro-McCarthy forces to scare the GOP holdouts into getting behind the California Republican . . . .

Within the Democratic ranks, lawmakers and aides are quietly gaming out how and when they might help break the GOP impasse—or if they would do so at all.

We’re all for bipartisan lawmaking. But the swirling rumors, leaks, and uncertainty of governance is not good. The Left and their mainstream media allies are loving every minute of this. Unfortunately, we’ve already watched 11 failed votes in just three days, with number 12 going down today, though the margin has narrowed. I’d say we’ve seen how well these people compromise with each other. There are about a thousand different ways this scenario could go wrong.

And listen, we understand some of the concerns of those holding out on the vote for Rep. McCarthy, once assumed to be a given for Speaker. There are those who want the power in the House to be more equitable, and not controlled by a small group of Representatives. Some are concerned about how spending bills are cobbled together. Many of these issues are important, but what we are currently seeing unfold on the House floor is chaos. This is truly unprecedented.

ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell shared his analysis of this situation on Capitol Hill and how the mainstream media is feeding into the Left’s narrative:

You know we should do a whole show sometime on why I torture myself by watching CNN for an hour every morning. But this morning I was watching and they literally had all voices, not a single dissenting voice, all voices from the media, some serious media people from Axios and from the Washington Post literally mocking Republicans for having this process where the majority of regular Congress people are going to have a stronger voice, and there’s going to be less power for the Speaker of the House. These reporters in D.C. want more power for one person, the Speaker of the House, to move forward. They’re very accustomed to having Nancy Pelosi just gavel down and everybody follow. It’s weird.

It’s weird that they’re freaking out that somehow Republicans want a decentralized power system. That’s what reporters are supposed to want as well. They’re totally corrupt. The whole thing has been flipped on its side and they don’t even realize it.

As the 12th ballot closed, Rep. McCarthy gained support from a significant number of prior Republican detractors and in fact exceeded the number of votes for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (the unanimous selection of the Democrats) for the first time. So it would appear that the end may be near for this contentious battle for Speaker of the House.

So where does all of this go? Today we laid out the possible outcomes. You can watch the full Sekulow broadcast below, including further analysis of the latest developments in the run for Speaker of the House.