Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly weighing a plot to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson before she retires in early January and is quietly gauging if she has the nine votes inside the Republican party to trigger a vote.
“Marjorie is approaching members to get to nine who will oust the speaker,” an anonymous source told MS Now. “And if we don’t get to work on codifying Trump’s agenda, anything can happen.”
The Georgia Republican previously tried to oust Johnson last year in protest at a foreign aid deal for Ukraine, and she has been a consistent critic of Johnson’s work throughout the second Trump administration this year.
Party infighting. A fascist feature.
What fascinates me is that the Heritage Foundation seems to tolerate her dissent. Historically, party dissenters don’t live long. But my guess is that the Heritage Foundation knows we are in a society where capital punishment of political enemies isn’t accepted. They let Trump ramble about executing people that he doesn’t like because Trump isn’t ultimately important to their plans.