Far-right Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia officially called for Mike Johnson's removal from his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives Wednesday evening, triggering the next step in a parliamentary procedureGreene filed a motion to vacate the chair against Johnson, who was elected Speaker in late October following Kevin McCarthy's ouster from office by the same procedure, in late March after the House successfully passed a $1.
"No Republican in good conscience can vote for the uniparty minibus. This is not a Republican bill," she wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "It is a Chuck Schumer, Democrat-controlled bill coming from the “Republican-controlled” House. The Speaker of the House should not bring it to the floor.""Our border cannot be an afterthought.
Greene threatened to bring her ouster resolution to the floor last Wednesday, but had been meeting with Johnson earlier this week in what were believed to be negotiations over her scrapping the motion to vacate.