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Is Rep. Marjorie Greene Backing Off Ousting the Speaker of the House?
Her hand has been forced…for now.
Well, the plan failed, at least for now...
That is, if she even meant for it to work…
Georgia congresswoman and notorious Trump ally Marjorie Greene has decided to back off of her second attempt to oust Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
Scott Wong and Ali Vitali with NBC News write:
“After a nearly two-hour meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson, far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., emerged from his office and said the two will continue their discussions Tuesday morning amid her threats to force a vote to depose him.
“We’re going to be meeting again tomorrow based on the discussion that we’ve had,” Greene said, standing in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall, though she did not elaborate on what she and the speaker discussed.
She would not answer any questions about whether she was backing off forcing a vote on a so-called motion to vacate the speaker’s chair.
But the continued talks between Johnson and his loudest critic in Congress suggest that the two could strike a deal to avert a vote on Johnson’s future that would be an embarrassment for the party six months before the November…
