House Republicans Set The Stage For Another Total Meltdown
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene seized the spotlight with a threat to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, but it’s unclear if she’ll go through with it.
WASHINGTON ― The House of Representatives could be on the brink of another meltdown brought on by Republican infighting.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has threatened to trigger a no-confidence vote against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a repeat of the leadership squabble that turned the House into a circus for several weeks last fall.
It’s essentially the same drama as before: Greene and other House hard-liners are mad at Johnson for avoiding a government shutdown by allowing the House to vote on a funding bill that passed with Democratic support.
“Mike Johnson worked with [Democratic Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer rather than with us, and gave Joe Biden and the Democrats everything they wanted,” Greene wrote in a Tuesday letter that complained about the government’s supposed “trans agenda” and the legal plight of Donald Trump supporters who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Greene and members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus argue that if Johnson drove a harder bargain with Democrats, who control the Senate and the White House, Republicans would force them to accept GOP policy priorities. In reality, the likelier outcome would be a government shutdown that voters would blame on Republicans.
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