Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) retains assembly with Speaker Johnson, threatening him, then embarrassingly giving him extra time.
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells reporters that Mike Johnson has a “fairly brief” window to behave on her listing of calls for as she continues to threaten a vote for his ouster.
“Proper now the ball is in Mike Johnson’s courtroom. He understands that he must be our Republican speaker of the Home,” she stated. She wouldn’t say if she would transfer this week as she had vowed to earlier than.
Massie: “If his plan is to tug this out in order that the stress comes off of this, and to tug it out for weeks or days even with out making some motion in our route, then he would simply be much better off to have this vote and get it behind him. It doesn’t serve him or us to tug this out. And I’ve communicated that to him.”
They need: Assurances that payments can be taken up solely once they have a majority of a majority help (which Ukraine assist didn’t have). Defunding Jack Smith’s probe into Trump (which the Senate would reject). No extra assist to Ukraine (although it’s unclear if extra assist can be wanted this yr). CR to impose a 1% across-the-board minimize (although fiscal yr ends Sept. 30).
“I’m so carried out with phrases. For me, it’s all about motion,” she stated
Greene desires Jack Smith and Ukraine defunded, plus a 1% funds minimize throughout the board. None of that is ever going to occur. The movement to vacate is lifeless. Greene is embarrassing herself by making threats that she clearly can’t again up. Nobody aside from Greene, Gosar, and Massie appears to need the Home to be just about shut down and plunged again into chaos.
Johnson isn’t going to provide Greene something that she desires.
It’s over, and so is the facility journey of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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