March 22, 2024 10:10 AM UTC
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As CNN stories this morning, existential chaos is brewing within the narrowly GOP-controlled U.S. Home for a 3rd time in lower than a 12 months:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a movement to oust Mike Johnson from the speakership, based on sources acquainted with the matter, amid anger concerning the authorities funding invoice.
The Home must take into account Greene’s movement inside two legislative days after she is acknowledged. The chamber heads to recess for 2 weeks on Friday afternoon.
Because the New York Occasions stories, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s movement to vacate the speaker’s chair got here after passage this morning of a spending settlement brokered between Speaker Mike Johnson and the White Home, narrowly averting a shutdown that may in any other case have begun this weekend:
The Home on Friday handed a $1.2 trillion spending invoice to fund the federal government by way of September and avert a partial shutdown on the finish of the week, setting off a G.O.P. mutiny that threatened Speaker Mike Johnson’s grasp on the gavel.
In a 286-134 vote that got here right down to the wire, Democrats rallied to supply the help to beat a livid swell of opposition by conservative Republicans.
Infuriated by the painstakingly negotiated bipartisan laws to maintain funding flowing for presidency businesses together with the Pentagon and the Division of Homeland Safety, the onerous proper revolted, and because the vote was nonetheless ongoing, Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia started the method of threatening a snap vote to oust Mr. Johnson, based on an individual acquainted with her plans who requested anonymity to explain her considering.
We haven’t heard as of this writing whether or not or not Rep. Lauren Boebert will probably be becoming a member of her archrival in calling for Johnson’s head, however it’s clearly extra difficult for Boebert given Johnson’s endorsement of Boebert within the CO-04 major. Boebert nonetheless has left the door open to changing Johnson in earlier moments of stress, so we’ll should see the place she lands over the upcoming recess. With the Home headed for a two-week recess, MTG’s movement to dump Mike Johnson will now fester within the courtroom of public opinion earlier than lawmakers reconvene to contemplate it–which once more, after the concessions granted by now-ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, they have to.
All we will say for the least productive Congress of our lifetime is, it’s a superb day to now not give a Buck.