How serious is the idea that Democrats could help the GOP elect a Speaker?
Republicans are meeting Wednesday evening for another round of votes as GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., remains short of the votes needed to secure the speakership.
Either way, Democrats are united behind Jeffries and their leadership team. And for many of them, no conversation could even be taken seriously until McCarthy has bowed out. Some Democrats, like California Rep. Ro Khanna, have publicly floated some concessions they might like — for instance, agreements on subpoena power or not debating raising the debt ceiling when the time comes. Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., didn't close the door on Dems accepting some sort of concessions to the rules package, either, but called it a hypothetical : “We’ll see.
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