"...No nominee having received the majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been selected."
No speaker election has been this drawn out since the dysfunctional era leading up to the U.S. Civil War in the mid-1800s.
McCarthy failed to secure the backing of 218 lawmakers needed to succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi as speaker over a grueling eleven votes across three days.
All 212 Democrats voted for their leader - Hakeem Jeffries - to hold the gavel.
McCarthy is about 17 votes short of securing the speakership.
His opponents say they do not trust him to fight for the deep spending cuts and other restrictions they want to impose on President Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Senate.
McCarthy, who was backed by former President Donald Trump for the post, offered the holdouts a range of concessions that would weaken the speaker's role.
But some of his opponents showed no sign of yielding.
Representative Matt Gaetz is one of them.
"It's my sincere fear that if we were to allow Mister McCarthy to assume the Speakership that would not get done (as per his speech, the corrupt system). That it would be business as usual, and the very same things that have paralyzed progress for both parties would continue to shackle us to never ending failure. We can be better than that."
Gaetz instead nominated Trump for the role - a House speaker does not technically need to be an elected lawmaker.
Without a leader, the House remains frozen - unable to even swear in newly elected members, let alone hold hearings, consider legislation or scrutinize Biden and his administration.
In a late-night bargaining session, McCarthy offered the holdouts greater influence over what legislation comes up for a vote, according to a source familiar with the talks.
He also offered the ability for any single member to call a vote that could potentially remove him from the post.
Still, the measures failed to quell the revolt.
