Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took aim at House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and threatened to strip his power, and a veteran Republican congressional staffer said Georgia Republican lacked a coherent strategy and would only cause more chaos.
Greene made a motion to vacate Johnson last Friday, but she lacks much support from other Republicans and there's no obvious choice to replace him, and GOP political strategist Brendan Buck told MSNBC's "Way Too Early" that she may have bitten off more than she can chew.
"I don't think she had a plan," said Buck, who served as a senior communications aide to former House speaker John Boehner and other top GOP lawmakers. "I mean, when she went out and talked on Friday, I think she realized how unpopular this would be in the conference. She said she doesn't want there to be chaos or be stuck on the floor for three and a half weeks. She thinks they should go behind closed doors and elect a new speaker. Mike Johnson isn't going to step aside right now. It would be chaos on the floor again, and there is no obvious choice. The reality is, it doesn't matter who the speaker is. As we just saw, the funding deal that Congress passed was exactly the same thing Kevin McCarthy would have done."
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"Marjorie Taylor Greene and her friends have been raging not against the speaker but against the realities of the divided government and the reality you have to work with Democrats," Buck added. "I don't know who it would be. I didn't know it'd be Mike Johnson. I'm skeptical he'd lose his job because, again, I think Democrats probably wouldn't take out Kevin McCarthy in the same way they did Mike Johnson, if the reason he's removed is for bringing up a bill they want him to bring up anyway. They'll get something out of it this time. I think their bill will fail, but it'll be chaos again."
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