As intraparty disagreements continue to stall House Republicans from choosing its next speaker, Democrats are choosing to remain uninvolved, insisting the deadlock must be solved by the majority party alone.

“It's the majority party's responsibility to elect the speaker with 218 votes and then to be able to sustain it,” said Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). “Why is that so complicated, particularly during such a difficult time for the American people and for Israel and for the Ukrainian people and for the free world?”

SPEAKER VOTE: SCALISE AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS COULD BE FACING ANOTHER FLOOR FIASCO

The House is entering its ninth day without a speaker after lawmakers voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in an unprecedented vote last week. Republicans tapped Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) as their next nominee during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, but the Louisiana Republican still faces an uphill battle after several GOP lawmakers came out in opposition to his speakership bid.

Shortly after Scalise secured the party nomination, more than a dozen House Republicans vowed to vote against him — prompting GOP leaders to postpone the full speaker vote until he could shore up enough support. Several of those holdout members have said they’ll continue voting for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) even after the Judiciary Committee chairman lost the nomination vote.

Meanwhile, Jeffries said Democrats would remain “willing and able to find a bipartisan path forward,” urging House Republicans to break with hard-line conservatives and work with his party to elect a new speaker. However, the New York Democrat did not elaborate on what that path forward could look like.

“It means partnering to reopen the House so that we can get the business of the American people done and changing the rules that were enacted in January that empower their most extreme members,” Jeffries said.

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Scalise can only afford to lose four votes because Democrats are expected to vote for Jeffries, setting the stage for a multi-round election similar to the one lawmakers experienced in January when it took Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) 15 rounds to secure the leadership position.

Lawmakers are set to reconvene on Thursday afternoon, although it remains unclear when the House will hold a speakership vote.