Who would have thought that Donald Trump acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene would bring Democrats in Washington so much joy?
That’s because Democrats have already said they would provide the votes to save the Republican speaker’s job.
The standoff with Greene, one of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters, risks throwing Republican control of the House into a fresh round of chaos as rank-and-file lawmakers will have to choose between ousting Johnson as speaker or joining with Democrats to keep him on the job. Johnson, in his own statement, said Greene’s move was “wrong for the Republican Conference, wrong for the institution, and wrong for the country.”
Democrats see in Johnson a potential partner, a hard-line conservative who nevertheless is willing to lead his Republican Party away from the far-right voices obstructing the routine business of governing, including funding the government and, more recently,by former Republican Rep. Ken Buck and the NY Post recently mocked Greene on its frontpage after she failed to stop aid from going to Ukraine in its war against Russia.
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