Chinese tabloid press having fun with the US House Speaker deadlock | Forexlive
Cartoon via China’s Global Times, the paper noting:
- Historic deadlock drags on in US House
There have been 11 rounds of votes with no Speaker elected.
- 218 votes are needed to win
- The Republican Party majority in the House have ample numbers to get to 218 votes but a hard-line faction is voting consistently against Republican front-runner McCarthy, preventing him from getting the job.
- The last time the Speaker vote went on this long was in 1859 – it took 44 rounds, and two months.