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\n Republicans are confronting a deepening leadership crisis that has left the House paralyzed with no clear path to elect a new speaker, after an effort to replace Kevin McCarthy following his historic ouster was derailed by entrenched opposition and deep divisions within the party.\n <\/p>\n

\n By failing to coalesce behind a candidate, Republicans have plunged the House into uncharted territory and effectively frozen the chamber at a time when major international and domestic crises loom, from Israel\u2019s war against Hamas to a potential government shutdown in mid-November.\n <\/p>\n

\n As House Republicans struggle to govern, the party suffered another black eye Thursday evening when Majority Leader Steve Scalise abruptly withdrew from the speaker\u2019s race amid hardened opposition from more than a dozen holdouts. The problem for the House GOP is that it\u2019s not clear anyone can lock down the 217 votes needed to win the gavel, raising questions over how and when the standoff over the speakership will last and at what cost.\n <\/p>\n

\n Tensions are boiling over among House Republicans frustrated at the impasse and concerned over the path forward.\n <\/p>\n

\n Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri told reporters after Scalise\u2019s exit from the race Thursday evening that one lawmaker had remarked: \u201c\u2018You know, you could put Jesus Christ up for speaker of the House and he still wouldn\u2019t get 217.\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n All eyes are on Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who ran unsuccessfully against Scalise for the speaker nomination and may now jump back into the race. Jordan, the chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday evening he would wait until Friday out of respect for Scalise to announce whether he will launch another bid for speaker.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Republicans are not unified behind Jordan and on the heels of Scalise withdrawing from the race several were already expressing concern over a potential Jordan run or outright opposition.\n <\/p>\n

\n Rep. Don Bacon, when asked whether he is a \u201cno\u201d on Jordan, told CNN\u2019s Manu Raju that he\u2019s \u201cchewing on it right now\u201d and said many Republicans are reluctant to reward what they see as \u201cbad behavior\u201d by giving in to what a small group of holdouts have been pushing for, though he said that\u2019s not Jordan\u2019s fault.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe had five individuals today who said they would only vote for Jim and not Steve. So many of us feel it\u2019s rewarding bad behavior if we do that. The problem for me though is it\u2019s not Jim\u2019s fault so I\u2019m just grappling with that,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a great quote \u2026 if you give a 5-year-old who is misbehaving terribly more ice cream, they will be worse behaving, right? That\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen here if we reward that behavior. So a lot of us are resistant to that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Scalise\u2019s exit from the race and McCarthy\u2019s historic removal as speaker have put a spotlight on the power of a small faction of conservatives to sideline the agenda of a majority of the conference. House Republicans control just a razor-thin majority and a speaker candidate can only afford to lose four defections and still win.\n <\/p>\n

\n Rep. Austin Scott told Raju the GOP\u2019s inability to elect a new speaker driven by small group of holdouts \u201cmakes us look like a bunch of idiots.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got a very small group of people that they have to have everything their way. We had a group that sabotaged Speaker McCarthy and now we\u2019ve had a group that sabotaged Steve Scalise, both of them great people,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n McHenry remains interim speaker
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\n Before Scalise withdrew, Republicans were already considering whether they should try to expand the powers of interim Speaker Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, so the House can pass legislation, like a resolution for Israel, multiple lawmakers told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThat is an option that we could pursue,\u201d GOP Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas told reporters.\n <\/p>\n

\n A group of more centrist Republicans are circulating a letter asserting that McHenry should have more temporary power, sources told CNN \u2013 a sign of desperation as the GOP scrambles to coalesce around a speaker.\n <\/p>\n

\n Attempting to expand the powers of the interim speaker, a role that is extremely limited, would put House Republicans in untested legal territory though and could be complicated to pull off, and some in the party have already pushed back on the idea.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m not willing to look at that at all,\u201d said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Republican from Florida.\n <\/p>\n

\n This story has been updated with additional developments.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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