• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: House Democrats wouldn't support Speaker Johnson 'for free'

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that Democrats are not going to support House Speaker Mike Johnson without getting something in return.

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    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

    It's the second time in less than a year that House Republicans have pushed to remove their elected leader.

  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker

    WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, three sources with knowledge of the move told NBC News, doing so just as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown. Johnson, R-La., has served as speaker for five months, having taken over for Kevin McCarthy who was ousted from the top job under a similar process. It was not immediately clear how the House would act on her motion, which requires just a majority vote to remove the speaker. Greene,...

  • GOP Berates Marjorie Taylor Greene's Move To Oust House Speaker Mike Jhonson: 'This Isn't Good'

    House Republicans criticize Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's move to remove Speaker Mike Johnson, warning it could deepen divisions within the GOP amid debates on leadership and party direction. read more

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene insists she doesn’t want ‘chaos’ after trying to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

    No Republicans have signed on to Greene’s effort to oust Mike Johnson from speaker’s chair

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to oust the House speaker. What's next?

    Barely six months into the job, House Speaker Mike Johnson is already at risk of the same conservative revolt that took down his predecessor. The Louisiana Republican, who only took the gavel in October after weeks of GOP infighting, was put on “warning” by one of his harshest critics Friday after he helped push through a $1.2 trillion spending package with majority Democratic votes despite heavy criticism from his right flank. During the vote, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed a...

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens to oust new House speaker for reasons

    Georgia’s main contribution to the degradation of competent government, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, just put Speaker Mike Johnson on notice with a motion to vacate the chair, the process that some Freedom Caucus Republicans used to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last fall. It’s filed, but she hasn’t yet activated it to force a floor vote. That was probably a smart move on her part since she’d definitely lose if she tried to derail the two-week recess the House is ready to set off on. Watch...

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene moves to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday pushed to boot House Speaker Mike Johnson the same way his predecessor lost his job. It comes down to Mr. Johnson’s handling of the spending fight and southern border security.

  • ‘Chaos’: Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed after GOP left with ‘no real majority’ in House

    Former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus blamed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other fringe members of the GOP caucus for causing "chaos" for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, Priebus reacted to Rep. Mike Gallagher's (R-WI) decision to retire early. "Here's the deal, though, and it's happening all over the country," Priebus said of gerrymandering. "435 House seats, only 20 are in play. I mean, what that...

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene just showed how 'miserable' it is to be a House Republican: op-ed

    This Friday, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson over his pushing through of a $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending bill that angered far-right lawmakers. “Today I filed a motion to vacate after Speaker Johnson has betrayed our conference and broken our rules,” Greene said in regards to the package that was passed to avoid a government shutdown. According to The Independent's Eric Garcia, the move worked out great for Greene since she "has shown...

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to remove House speaker Mike Johnson

    Far-right Republican says motion intended as ‘more of a warning than a pink slip’ and stops short of forcing vote to eject himThe far-right Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor-Greene filed a motion to remove Mike Johnson as House speaker on Friday but did not pull the trigger on a move that would probably pitch Congress into a repeat of chaos seen last October, when the right ejected Kevin McCarthy.Speaking after Johnson relied on Democratic votes to pass a $1.2tn spending bill and avoid a...

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

    March 22 (UPI) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed a motion Friday to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson after his successful bipartisan efforts to advance the current budget plan now being considered in the Senate to avert a government shutdown. Her motion, similar to the one that led to the ouster of former Republican […] The post Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson first appeared on Gephardt Daily.