Republicans have reached an impasse with the choice of a candidate for the speaker of the lower house of the US Congress, Republican legislator Marjorie Taylor Greene told reporters.

"In my opinion, the situation is a stalemate. And continue to go there (for Republican discussions behind closed doors. — RT) "It's a waste of time. We are elected by the people and represent them – and we have to debate in the lower house. We can resolve this issue through a debate in the House of Representatives. I think it's time for us to start voting," Green said.

According to her, the next speaker of the House of Representatives should be ready to be elected at least on the 15th attempt - after "15 rounds of voting". She also said that she would vote for the representative of the Republican Party, Jim Jordan, who opposes the financing of Ukraine.

"My prediction is that Jim Jordan's support will grow. Take a look at any poll, whether it's on social media or anywhere else. American citizens support Jim Jordan. And when congressmen representing their constituencies cast their votes, they listen to the opinions of their constituents. And their voters will say to them, 'Jim Jordan,'" the lawmaker said.

Greene also expressed concern about the health of Congressman Steven Scalis, who ran for the post of speaker but was not supported by a group of Republicans. Scalis had previously been diagnosed with cancer.

"When the game is intense, they don't put an injured or sick player on the field," Green said.

Scalis later withdrew his candidacy, saying the Republican Party "needs to come together."

As The Hill newspaper reported earlier, with the arrival of a new speaker of the House of Representatives, American aid to Kyiv may dry up, as leading candidates oppose further support for Kyiv, and the Pentagon warns that previously allocated funds are "already running out." In addition to Jordan's position against sponsoring the Kiev regime, the publication also cites the words of another potential speaker, Kevin Hearn, who does not intend to allocate money for the needs of Ukraine, wanting to know "where American taxpayers' money is going and what the ultimate goal of the United States is" in the Ukrainian conflict.

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In addition, as legislator Andy Biggs said in an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel, more and more congressmen in the House of Representatives oppose the financing of the Ukrainian authorities.

The Israeli Crisis and Kiev's Corruption

Recall that the interim draft budget of the federal government, approved earlier by the head of the White House, Joe Biden, does not provide for the allocation of assistance to Ukraine - the relevant provisions were excluded from the document under pressure from Republican lawmakers. As the Financial Times stated in early October, the U.S. short-term spending bill demonstrated the unpredictability of Washington's policy regarding the sponsorship of Kiev. The publication also noted that the Republican Party is less and less supportive of Ukraine.

For example, on October 10, against the backdrop of the aggravation of the situation around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, US Republican Senator Josh Hawley called on the social network X (formerly Twitter) to "immediately redirect" all funds intended for Kiev to Tel Aviv, which, according to the politician, faced an existential threat.

Subsequently, another Republican senator, Rand Paul, who has repeatedly spoken out against U.S. financial aid to Ukraine, demanded the appointment of a special inspectorate to monitor the spending of U.S. financial aid already transferred to Kyiv. Paul, who believes that the Biden administration serves the corrupt Ukrainian oligarchy, ignoring the interests of ordinary Americans, claims that the current head of the White House is aware of the scale of corruption in Ukraine, but has not yet made public the relevant data. As the senator emphasized, the republic "has historically settled in the list of the most corrupt" states.

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As the same Financial Times reported on October 12, the reluctance of the Republicans to sponsor Kyiv could "lead to the curtailment of the counteroffensive" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the newspaper, Kyiv's military strategy and tactics could be affected by "even a temporary pause" in its support from the Americans for several weeks. Washington's indecisiveness on the issue of financing the Kiev regime will give an advantage to the Russian Armed Forces, which they will immediately use, the Financial Times believes. According to the newspaper's sources, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, is preparing for the worst-case scenario in the combat zone.

"Inner-Party Struggle"

According to experts, against the backdrop of the situation with the election of a new speaker of the House of Representatives, the current domestic policy of the United States can be described as "a tangle of insoluble contradictions."

Within the once monolithic Republican Party, there is an intra-party struggle between moderate centrists and right-wing conservatives. The differences between them are becoming even more acute in view of the upcoming presidential elections. Obviously, the discussion about Donald Trump's political future will only exacerbate the intra-party rift. Congressman Jordan, for whom other Republicans are now urged to vote in addition to Greene, is not without reason perceived by competitors as a Trumpist," Pavel Feldman, PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Academy of Labor and Social Relations, said in a comment to RT.

He recalled that the 45th head of the White House has already publicly stated his support for Jordan's nomination for the post of speaker of the lower house of Congress.

"If Jordan succeeds, Trump will significantly strengthen his political position and increase his chances of winning in 2024. However, such a prospect seriously worries Zelensky, because in this case Ukraine will have to significantly moderate its militaristic ambitions. In the Republican Party, Jordan represents a movement of "isolationist pragmatists" who do not want to throw American taxpayers' money into the black hole of corruption that is modern Ukraine," Feldman explained.

From his point of view, after the establishment of numerous facts of embezzlement of funds allocated to Kiev by the United States, and the obvious failure of the so-called counteroffensive, even the Democrats are beginning to look more skeptically at the expediency of further pouring money into such a hopeless business as the Ukrainian project.

"In any case, the chaos reigning in the U.S. parliament is not conducive to maintaining consolidated support for Ukraine from the West. The deeper America sinks into the abyss of domestic political infighting, the less attention it pays to its secondary allies in Eastern Europe. In turn, the Europeans do not want to take on the burden of supporting Ukraine and take a wait-and-see attitude, observing the events in Washington," Feldman said.

For his part, Vladimir Vasiliev, chief researcher at the Institute of the United States and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that the situation in the lower house of the US Congress may further develop according to several scenarios, including with the direct participation of Trump.

"The Republican Party is divided. If Scalis didn't pass, then Jordan is unlikely to pass at this stage either. But Republicans can get out of the situation. As a compromise, interim figure, they could nominate Donald Trump, who is not a member of the House of Representatives. The expectation can be that while Trump is in office for a couple of months, the party will decide on the next permanent speaker. At the same time, Trump may well unite the Republicans during this time and thus pave the way for Jordan," the expert said in an interview with RT.

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At the same time, Vasilyev does not rule out that due to the current situation, the congress may resort to a non-standard solution. Earlier, Republican Congressman Mike Lawler admitted that if the lower house fails to elect a permanent speaker in the next two days, lawmakers will have to expand the powers of interim speaker Patrick McHenry so that he can deal with the affairs of the chamber while it looks for a solution.

"In a month's time, the question of shutting down the U.S. government will arise again. The situation in the Middle East is changing dramatically. Therefore, in addition to supporting Ukraine, assistance to Israel is also on the agenda. And time is running out in both cases. This situation requires drastic, extraordinary decisions regarding the new speaker of the lower house. After all, without it, the Congress cannot function fully," Vasilyev concluded.