Posted on 04/30/2024 11:43:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
House Democrat leadership announced on April 30 that they would vote to save House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) bid to strip him of the gavel should she activate it.
The Democrat lawmakers said they would vote to table Ms. Greene’s motion to vacate should she bring it up, while referencing the House GOP leader’s recent help in passing $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific that had been stalled for months.
“If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed,” Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Conn.) and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said in a joint statement.
“From the very beginning of this Congress, House Democrats have put people over politics and found bipartisan common ground with traditional Republicans in order to deliver real results,” the Democrat leaders stated. “At the same time, House Democrats have aggressively pushed back against MAGA extremism. We will continue to do just that.”
In March, in response to Mr. Johnson’s initiative to secure broad Democrat support for $1.2 trillion in government financing, Ms. Greene presented a motion to vacate that she characterized as a “warning” or “a pink slip.”
Since then two other Republicans publicly backed the motion, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.). Despite conservative outrage over last week’s passage of a foreign aid package that included more than $60 billion for Ukraine, most in the Republican conference have not supported Ms. Greene’s effort.
Ms. Greene responded to news of the Democrat move, asking, “What slimy back room deal did Johnson make for the Democrats’ support?” in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “Mike Johnson is officially the Democratic Speaker of the House. Here is their official endorsement of his Speakership.”
“He should resign, switch parties, and continue voting for Biden’s open border invasion of America, endless wars, full term abortion on demand, trans agenda on children, warrantless spying on the American people, weaponizing government against President Trump and his supporters, and every other Democrat wishlist item he’s handed over.”
The Georgia Republican asserted that Americans “deserve to see the Uniparty” on display, and warned, “I’m about to give them their coming out party!”
‘Never Requested Assistance’ Mr. Johnson answered questions at a press conference not long after the Democrats’ statement was released, saying that he did not ask Mr. Jeffries for his support in the face of the motion to vacate.
“I’ve never requested assistance from anyone at all,” Mr. Johnson told reporters.
Mr. Jeffries previously refrained from a commitment to save Mr. Johnson but said at a press conference earlier in the month, “I believe a reasonable number of Democrats would not want to see the speaker fall for doing the right thing,” referencing the government spending package that prompted Ms. Greene’s motion.
A similar statement was made by Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.J.), who said: “I will say that I’m the first to give Speaker Johnson a lot of credit for finally putting the foreign aid bill on the floor. We certainly knew that was a risky move within his within his party. Sadly, it shouldn’t be but it was.
“I think there will be Democrats who would rather reward a speaker for doing the right thing than reward Marjorie Taylor Greene, and her effort to overtake the House.”
A number of Republicans, including some who voted to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), have indicated they don’t support removing Mr. Johnson in the same way.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who was a leader in the effort to remove Mr. McCarthy, told reporters, “I oppose a motion to vacate at the current time.”
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) responded to questions about the motion, saying he believed in this case it is “being exercised improperly.”
According to his statements to The Epoch Times, a motion to vacate should be “as serious as impeachment” and applied solely in cases where the speaker has committed grave moral or legal transgressions.
“There should be at least some standards, moral standards, such as if someone were to engage in an unethical action, or crime, deceit,” Mr. Meuser said.
Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) had a similar take, telling The Epoch Times that targeting the Republican speaker “takes the focus off of just how bad President Biden is, how bad House Democrats are.”
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who has been a critic of Mr. Johnson in the past, told The Epoch Times of the motion, “I’m not itching to do anything like this. What I think we need to do is just get back in the saddle and focus on doing our job.”
Joseph Lord and Stacy Robinson contributed to this report.
Yes it does democrat leaders have their own wolf leir headquarters.
they really don t need to because president trump publicly supported mike keeping the job for now.
She has only been able to attract two other cosponsors on her motion to vacate, Reps. Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar.
mtg will continue to fail on this. until after election.
Please do it. It will usher in the official start of the UniParty.
Agreed
“Democrat Leaders Say They’ll Save Speaker Johnson From MTG’s Ouster Bid”
The Uniparty laid bare.
We need an opposition party. Continuing to believe that the Republican party can be reformed is a pipe dream. It will never happen.
The Democrats are purists. They don’t tolerate DINOs. They win when they’re in power and they win when they’re out of power.
The Republicans shun purists. They embrace RINOs. They lose when they’re in power and they lose when they’re out of power.
I SUPPORT SPEAKER JOHNSON!
Big mouth MTG should just STFU and STFD.
Attack Democrats, leave the Speaker alone.
You guys are never happy. A bunch of malcontents.
Want some cheese with your whine?
Mike Jonson is a good Christian man. He is doing the job that nobody else wanted with a SUPER MAJORITY of ONE!
Find a Democrat to HATE on. Leave our REPUBLICAN Speaker ALONE.
SHAME, SHAME on all of you attacking him. Where is the upside of doing so? Maybe you should try HELPING him by not attacking him.
Don’t bother to flame me. I NEVER read responses. Mostly because I don’t care what you think.
Let the Democrats save Johnson and expose the Uniparty.
Communists stick together...
Well said
Which, apparently, is running massive more amounts of debt, sitting back and doing nothing about securing the border and putting a priority on funding a proxy war in Ukraine that we never should have started.
So, you're okay with the national debt increasing $1 trillion every hundred days?
You're okay with the fact that Johnson broke his promise to pass legislation securing the border before passing anymore money for a war in Ukraine has nothing to do with our national security?
If so, YOU are as big a part of the problem as any leftist.
Why should we be happy when we have wide open borders and a sitting President trying to imprison his political opponent with the help of the corrupt FBI?
And, what did Johnson do? Break his promise to pass legislation securing the border before giving more money to Ukraine and pass legislation spending $4 billion for a new FBI headquarters.
When Democrats have a narrow majority, they are able to pass everything they want.
When Republicans have a narrow majority, they pass everything the Democrats want.
Johnson is basically Boehner without the lit Marlboro, never empty tumbler of Jameson and fake tan.
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