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This story has been updated. WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans Tuesday voted to tap Minnesota’s Tom Emmer as speaker following five rounds of ballots — but Emmer quit the race just four hours …
Powerful Republican Tom Emmer’s links to doomed crypto firm FTX pose a significant hurdle in his possible bid to snag the Speaker’s gavel after Jim Jordan failed to muster the needed votes Tuesday, sources told The Post.
U.S. House Republicans voted Tuesday to tap Minnesota’s Tom Emmer as speaker after five rounds of ballots, but Emmer quit four hours later.
Emmer, the No. 3 Republican, has an uphill battle to coalesce a band of more than 20 hard-right Republican holdouts loyal to former President Trump.
Apollo was interested in investing in FTX, but it wanted to know how a popular crypto derivatives exchange had a $7 billion shortfall.