'One dumpster fire at a time': GOP lawmaker may end up punishing Marjorie Taylor Greene
While Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to the House floor on Wednesday to introduce her motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from office, a group of her fellow Republican lawmakers gathered on the Capitol steps to rail against what she was doing — and one lawmaker in particular didn't seem to rule out supporting some form of punishment for Greene.
"Do you think Marjorie Taylor Greene should be punished?" one reporter asked Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD).
"One dumpster fire at a time," Johnson replied. "Let's take care of the motion to vacate, and then we can worry about whatever comes next."
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The motion to vacate rule was approved at the start of this Congress, with then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) agreeing to it as a condition for the far-right Freedom Caucus ending their blockade on the vote to elect him speaker. However, he only lasted in that role a few months before Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and a band of renegades used the rule to throw him out of office, resulting in weeks of chaos that finally resolved with Mike Johnson being elected in his place.
Gaetz has claimed he ousted McCarthy for breaking deals with the Freedom Caucus, but he has reportedly admitted in private he really did it as revenge for an Ethics Committee investigation into him.
Greene, a far-right lawmaker known for her embrace of conspiracy theories, was a close ally of McCarthy and opposed that motion to vacate. However, she has become increasingly angered with Johnson as he passed short-term bills to keep the government open, and in particular allowed military defense spending for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel to clear the House. She has moved ahead even as former President Donald Trump himself voices support for the current speaker, and House Democrats signal they will intervene to prevent Johnson from being ejected.
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