Attack on Israel Puts Pressure on GOP to Get House in Order

Larry Hogan, former governor of Maryland.

Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, White House and politics reporters Ryan Teague Beckwith and Gregory Korte look at how the turmoil in the House may interfere with the US response to the attack on Israel. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

The race for US House speaker is taking on new urgency with the deadly attack in Israel, as President Joe Biden demands swift action that Congress is temporarily paralyzed from providing.