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House Speaker Mike Johnson , R-La., faces a growing threat to his job as hard-right Republicans are threatening to try to remove him as speaker over his push to pass aid packages to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan—but it’s unclear if they have the votes to succeed as some Democrats could join Republicans in voting to save Johnson from an ouster.
Intensifying her threat as Johnson prepares to send a foreign aid package to the House, Greene accused him of funding “foreign wars while refusing to force Schumer to hold a trial to impeach Mayorkas and demanding Joe Biden sign HR 2 into law,” she tweeted, referring to the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the House-passed border security bill.
Both Greene and Rep. Tom Massie, R-Ky., who announced Tuesday he would co-sponsor the motion to vacate, called on Johnson to resign, but he refused, telling reporters the removal threat was “absurd,” while calling himself a “wartime speaker” . Republicans hold a slim 218-213 majority in the House and can afford to lose no more than two votes to pass any legislation, including removing Johnson, meaning that if Greene and Massie joined all Democrats in voting to oust Johnson, the removal effort could be successful., D-Texas, according to The Texas Tribune; Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H.
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