Marjorie Taylor Greene’s efforts to push GOP Speaker Mike Johnson out of his post is a complete waste of time.
That’s the conclusion of fellow Republican lawmaker Rep. Nancy Mace.
“We need to get our act together,” she said during a recent interview. “She’s gonna lose. I don’t know why she’s doing this because the votes aren’t there. She’s gonna lose the motion to vacate, and I don’t know why she’s doing it.”
Mace was reacting to Greene announcing last week she plans to go ahead with plans to call a vote to remove Johnson. But the effort is doomed from the start because Democrats have already said they would give Johnson enough votes to remain speaker.
The standoff with Greene, one of Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters, risks throwing Republican control of the House into a fresh round of chaos as rank-and-file lawmakers will have to choose between ousting Johnson as speaker or joining with Democrats to keep him on the job.
Johnson, in his own statement, said Greene’s move was “wrong for the Republican Conference, wrong for the institution, and wrong for the country.”
Democrats see in Johnson a potential partner, a hard-line conservative who nevertheless is willing to lead his Republican Party away from the far-right voices obstructing the routine business of governing, including funding the government and, more recently, supporting Ukraine and other U.S. allies overseas.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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