Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) told reporters he’s “willing to work” with Democrats, but “they gotta tell us what they need.”

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, told reporters Thursday after a closed-door House GOP meeting that he wants Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to tell Republicans what concessions they’ll have to make for Democrats to help them elect a speaker—underscoring the chaotic race to find a new House leader as Republican options grow short to overcome an intraparty impasse.

  • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Traitors should be booted from the party and forced to sit as independents.

    That’s an interesting idea, not expulsion from Congress but from the caucus. There are examples of independents voluntarily joining a caucus, but in my quick research I’m not seeing where a caucus has even asked a member to leave, much less thrown them out.

    'Hope this can/will happen.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      They wont expel them because it may literally create a viable 3rd party at their right flank.

      Not one they could join, and not one that they could control, one just large enough to prevent the GOP from ever controlling anything again.

      Sounds great, honestly, but likely not to them.