Jordan says as speaker he’d expect GOP unity: ‘Don’t want to go to the Democrats’

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said if he is elected as the next speaker of the House, he will expect unity among his Republican colleagues because he has does not want to make deals with Democrats.

“Let’s work as a unit and deal with the problems we see in this country as a unit, so we can stop where the Left wants to take us,” Jordan told Hannity.

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The Ohio congressman said he believes he can help unite the Republican conference after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was tossed from his leadership seat earlier this week. Before any future legislation can be put forth and voted on, a new speaker must be elected.

“I feel that is important,” Jordan said of his party’s unity. “This election for speaker is about two issues: who can bring our team together, unite our conference, and tell the American people what we are doing and why it’s important to them. I think I can do that. That’s why I’m running.”

He added that he would not want to see Republicans go to the House floor unless they were united and could get a majority vote of 218.

Once a new speaker is elected, funding the government is the next order of business. A government shutdown was narrowly avoided last Saturday as both the House and the Senate passed a continuing resolution giving Congress 45 extra days to pass its annual appropriations bills to renew funding for the next fiscal year.

“I think that we have to look at another stop gap measure that would kick in the 1% cut,” Jordan noted. “There is legislation in place right now that says if we have a continuing resolution that goes into next year, there’s an automatic 1% cut that takes place. There’s nothing like a cut to spending that focuses politicians’ attention. So, we need that threat hanging there to be leverage for us to get the policies [to] win on the border issue, on the crime issue, on inflation.”

“But that’s the only way this town can operate when there is that kind of leverage and there is that kind of deadline hanging there where real cuts are going to happen that we can actually get people to focus and get our work done,” he continued. “That’s what I think we have to do.”

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Early Friday morning, former President Donald Trump endorsed Jordan as the next speaker of the House, saying: “He will be a GREAT Speaker of the House, & has my Complete & Total Endorsement!”

If Jordan were to become the next speaker of the House, he has vowed the work investigating the alleged “criminal bribery scheme” between Hunter Biden, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and “foreign national” Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian owner of Burisma, will continue.