House Democrats Will Block Motion to Oust Speaker Mike Johnson
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives plan to block a motion to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
For Context: In March, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) filed a motion to vacate in an effort to oust Johnson. Green’s fallout with Johnson stems from his decision to advance a foreign aid bill. Green believes the foreign aid funds should be spent addressing the crisis at the southern border. Johnson passed the foreign aid bills with Democratic support earlier this month.
Key Quotes: House Democratic leadership released a statement on Tuesday reading, “House Democrats have put people over politics and found bipartisan common ground with traditional Republicans in order to deliver real results. At the same time, House Democrats have aggressively pushed back against MAGA extremism.” The statement concluded, “the time has come to turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction. We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed.”
Green’s Response: In a post on social media on Tuesday, Green called Johnson “the Democrat Speaker of the House” and indicated she would still move forward and force a vote on the motion, stating, “If the Democrats want to elect him Speaker (and some Republicans want to support the Democrats’ chosen Speaker), I’ll give them the chance to do it.”
How the Media Covered It: Outlets across the spectrum covered the story similarly, concluding that the effort to oust Johnson was dead.
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From the Left
House Democrats announce they would save Speaker Mike Johnson if Marjorie Taylor Greene triggers her effort to oust himHouse Democratic leadership announced Tuesday that Democrats would kill an effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from his position, amid threats from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other hardliners.
“At this moment, upon completion of our national security work, the time has come to turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction. We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed,” the leaders wrote in a statement.
Greene suggested she will move...
From the Center
House Democrats will block motion to remove Speaker JohnsonHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced Tuesday that House Democrats will block Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.
“We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed,” Jeffries said in a statement.
Greene, R-Ga., introduced the motion to vacate, as it’s known, last month. However, she had thus far declined to force a vote on the resolution.
From the Right
House Democrats would block MTG’s motion to oust Speaker Johnson: JeffriesHouse Democratic leaders would vote to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a motion to vacate if one was brought by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the first time Democrats have made a definitive decision on how they would respond to efforts to oust the speaker.
In a statement released Tuesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other House Democratic leaders said the time has come to “turn the page on this chapter of pro-Putin Republican obstruction” following the passage of the foreign aid package last week — another...
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