Kevin McCarthy loses 6th vote for Speaker

[Jehanne]

Yes, the weapons are paid for, but, the crews that deploy and manage them need to be paid.  If the government shut down and service personnel went without their paychecks for long enough, many of them could start abandoning their posts, which could lead to chaos.

You’ve had government shutdowns before. I don’t recall and headlines about military personnel abandoning their posts.

It’s important to remember that the US government isn’t shut down, nor is it in imminent danger of doing so.

Boru

Oh, I agree; it's largely a hypothetical, but, then again, so was a sitting Vice President overturning the vote of the Electoral College in a Presidential election. In my opinion, the Constitution needs a new Ammendment that says the House of Representatives has 7 days to choose a new speaker by majority vote, after which, the speaker will be chosen based upon a plurality of votes with no minimum quorum necessary for the vote to take place.