Former President Donald Trump spoke privately with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and urged her to drop her push to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, a source told ABC News.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on Tuesday to be backing off her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson this week, though she signaled that she'll preserve her threat indefinitely -- keeping Johnson on a tight leash as he navigates a one-vote majority in the chamber.
Greene said she did not provide the speaker with a specific timeline on the demands, but said "it's pretty short." At the weekly GOP news conference on Tuesday, Johnson didn't rule out Greene's request to defund the special counsel's probe into Trump.
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