New Congress live updates: What's next after Kevin McCarthy's speakership win

McCarthy on Thursday lost another election for speaker, failing to pick up any votes despite making new concessions to the conservative GOP rebels opposing his bid.

McCarthy received 201 votes in the seventh round -- the same number he received in the three votes held on Wednesday.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., again saw the most support with 212 votes from the Democratic caucus. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., received 19 votes as the GOP's protest nominee against McCarthy.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, a leading opponent of McCarthy, voted for Donald Trump for House speaker. This is the first time Trump has received a vote. The former president, weighing in on the speaker battle, has thrown his support behind McCarthy.

One lawmaker, Indiana Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz, voted present.

Members are currently voting for a seventh time to elect a speaker of the House.

The matchup is the same as the previous three rounds: McCarthy is facing Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Republican Rep. Byron Donalds.

The results will show whether McCarthy's gained any support after offering new concessions to his critics.

"People ask me, 'What is the end game? How does this end?' The answer to this question is that this is a dynamic process. All of the decisions on this floor result from the coming together of minds, one way or another," Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., said as he nominated Donalds. "This is the people's business. We will resolve the people's business."

Freshman Rep. John James, D-Mich., nominated House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Calif., for speaker as the third day of voting got underway.

James compared the vote to that of 1856, when it took months to elect a speaker -- but boasted that McCarthy would emerge victorious.

"The leading Republican nominee won then, and the leading Republican nominee will win again today," he said.

James conceded that "we're stuck at a malaise, at an impasse, and we will stay here," but insisted that McCarthy deserved the speakership after Republicans won the House majority.

"You don't fire a guy who's winning," he said, before urging Republicans to accept the victory.

"We need to learn how to win."

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called out Republicans for putting the business of the House on hold.

"It is a shame for the country,” Pelosi told ABC News as the chamber reconvened Thursday. “This is a great institution. And really, I wish they voted [to] elect the speaker on the first vote because we have important work to do. And this undermines that. We’ll see."

Pelosi was the first woman to be elected speaker, and held the gavel twice: from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023.