House faces critical decision on Speaker Johnson's ouster after Marjorie Taylor Greene forces vote

The House of Representatives present has 2 workdays to enactment connected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's question to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

Greene, R-Ga., has been threatening to unit a ballot connected taking Johnson's gavel since precocious March successful protestation of his handling of authorities backing and foreign aid. 

Her resolution, known arsenic a question to vacate the chair, volition present person to beryllium voted connected oregon tabled aft Greene noticed it arsenic "privileged" connected Wednesday nighttime – meaning House leaders person 2 legislative days to instrumentality it up.

The Republican broadside of the House enclosure erupted successful boos arsenic Greene listed disconnected her gripes against Johnson, prompting Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., to shout, "The House is not successful bid – and is astir to autumn into chaos," prompting immoderate sparse laughs from their broadside of the chamber.

The ballot is expected to beryllium adjacent but yet fail, with some Republicans and Democrats voicing absorption to a determination that would efficaciously paralyze Congress until a caller talker is found.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is forcing a ballot connected her question to oust Speaker Johnson. (Getty Images)

The ballot is simply a culmination of six months' worthy of vexation from the astir right-wing conservatives successful Johnson's conference, who person felt sidelined by him connected astir each captious authorities including overseas assistance and authorities funding, during which they demanded helium leverage a authorities shutdown to unit the Democrats who controlled the Senate and White House to walk Republican policies.

Greene's propulsion got 2 much backers successful Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., aft Johnson ushered a overseas assistance measure on bipartisan lines that includes $61 cardinal for Ukraine.

But it's mostly fallen level among the House GOP, wherever adjacent Johnson's critics person shown small appetite for going done different 3 weeks of chaos similar what followed the ouster of ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., successful October – peculiarly six months retired from an election.

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Massie said Democrats' enactment for Johnson volition apt determination much Republicans to ballot for ousting Johnson. (Getty Images)

With conscionable a razor-thin bulk of 2 seats, it would instrumentality small dissent for Johnson to suffer the apical House occupation if it fell on enactment lines. Eight House Republicans had voted with each Democrats to oust McCarthy successful aboriginal October. 

Unlike McCarthy's case, however, House Democrats person pledged to travel to Johnson's assistance by voting to array the solution if it came up – a ballot to array a measure, which fundamentally kills it, is simply a procedural hurdle that allows Democrats to artifact Johnson's ouster without having to really ballot connected whether to occurrence him.

Johnson's critics seized connected the left-wing enactment arsenic grounds that the Louisiana Republican was not representing the interests of his ain party.

"The full Democrat Party is lining up down Mike Johnson. First, it was the full enactment squad for the Democrats. Now, Nancy Pelosi, who impeached President Trump TWICE, has fixed Johnson her seal of approval. What woody has been made??" Greene wrote connected X on Monday on with a video of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., backing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' determination to assistance Johnson.

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Johnson became talker aft the ouster of ex-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The determination could prevention Johnson's job, but could besides outgo him immoderate Republican support.

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Massie told Fox News Digital past week erstwhile asked astir however overmuch GOP backing helium expected, "I deliberation it's a kinetic situation. And Hakeem and the full Democrat enactment squad endorsing Mike Johnson is going to origin a batch of radical who weren't with us, to beryllium with us."

Johnson, for his part, has repeatedly told reporters that he's not acrophobic of Greene's threats and has insisted his absorption is connected governing.