Thanks To Marjorie Taylor Greene, Democrats Have Mike Johnson The place They Need Him

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s movement to vacate has given Home Democrats leverage over Speaker Mike Johnson to get Ukraine help handed.

Greene’s movement to vacate is as a result of she is outraged over the truth that 2/3 of the Home handed a invoice to maintain the federal government funded.

Home Democrats have been prepared for Greene to make good on her risk for weeks.

Throughout a March 10, 2024 look om CBS’s Face The Nation, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested that Democrats would be open to helping Johnson maintain his job if he put a Ukraine help invoice on the Home ground.

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Rep. Jeffries stated when requested how Democrats would vote if a movement to vacate got here to the Home ground, “I have made the observation that I believe there are a reasonable number of members, if the Speaker were to do the right thing, that don’t believe that he should fall as a result of it.”

In different phrases, if Johnson desires to maintain his job, he must put a Ukraine help invoice on the Home ground for a vote.

The top results of Greene’s try and boot Johnson might very nicely be the passage of help to Ukraine that she opposes.

Speaker Johnson will doubtless want Democratic votes is she goes ahead with the motion to vacate.

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) advised CNN why he would vote in opposition to the movement to vacate, “Because this is absurd. He’s getting kicked out for doing the right thing. Getting the keeping the government open. It has two-thirds support of the congress, and the idea that he would be kicked out by these jokers is absurd.”

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A number of Dems signaling they’ll save Mike Johnson — particularly if he strikes on Ukraine help.
Tom Suozzi tells me he’ll vote to save lots of him pic.twitter.com/8y53xNEb1j

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 22, 2024

If Mike Johnson desires to maintain his job, he higher give Democrats what they need, as a result of Marjorie Taylor Greene is able to kick him to the curb.

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