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 checklist 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 mentioned. She wouldn’t say if she would transfer this week as she had vowed to earlier than.
Massie: “If his plan is to pull this out in order that the strain comes off of this, and to pull it out for weeks or days even with out making some motion in our path, 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 pull this out. And I’ve communicated that to him.”
They need: Assurances that payments might be taken up solely once they have a majority of a majority assist (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 might be wanted this yr). CR to impose a 1% across-the-board lower (although fiscal yr ends Sept. 30).
“I’m so performed with phrases. For me, it’s all about motion,” she mentioned
Greene desires Jack Smith and Ukraine defunded, plus a 1% finances lower 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 nearly shut down and plunged again into chaos.
Johnson isn’t going to offer Greene something that she desires.
It’s over, and so is the facility journey of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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