Hints and tips:
...Johnson could also need Democratic backing if Greene triggers a “motion to vacate”, a procedural move to hold a vote of no confidence in the Speaker....
...Greene said on X that Johnson was “serving Democrats” and throwing her party into chaos by “going to fund foreign wars”. Read more here...
...If Greene were to pull the trigger, Johnson would be relying on Democrats to bail him out, given he would need the support of the majority of the House to remain Speaker....
...Greene has threatened to introduce a “motion to vacate”, which would trigger a vote of no confidence in the Speaker....
...Greene said on social media platform X that Johnson was “serving Democrats” and throwing her party into chaos by “going to fund foreign wars”....
...Johnson’s leadership is on shaky ground after Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, threatened to hold a vote of no confidence in the speaker....
...lauren.fedor@ft.com...
...On Monday Johnson brushed aside suggestions that Greene would try and oust him over his latest proposal, saying, “I don’t spend my time worrying about a motion to vacate.”...
...Greene challenged Biden to say the name of Laken Riley, a nursing student in Georgia whose death last month, allegedly at the hands of an immigrant, became a rallying cry for Republicans....
...funds amid a split in his party between more traditional Republicans such as Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader, and more isolationist figures such as Trump and firebrand congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene...
...They included former candidate for Arizona governor Kari Lake, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, among others....
...Biden went off script after chants of “say her name” from Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene — a reference to Laken Riley, a nursing student killed last month, allegedly by an immigrant....
...Lauren Boebert Radical Boebert, who previously owned a gun-themed restaurant in Colorado with her estranged husband, was first elected to Congress in 2020 and very narrowly won re-election last year....
...“We need a Republican Speaker that reflects the values of Republican voters that can lead our conference,” Greene wrote on X....
...But several of the rebels who voted against the compromise deal on Saturday, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hardline Republican congresswoman from Georgia, have since said they do not believe McCarthy...
...Some hardline Republican House members, including Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, suggested that Trump, the current frontrunner for the party’s nomination for president in 2024, should enter the race....
...“Matt Gaetz made a lot of good points today,” said Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican congresswoman from Georgia who was among McCarthy’s loudest supporters....
...Some hardline Republican House members, notably Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, have made the far-fetched suggestion that Donald Trump, the former president, throw his hat in the ring....
...McCarthy has been facing rising heat from the right flank of the Republican party, including Georgia’s firebrand lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene....
...Several Trump advisers and allies are expected to attend the debate in Wisconsin and be in the “spin room” for reporters after the event, including Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene....
..., Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz (we did worry they were hamming it up too much but, props to all three, they carried it off)....
...Mace of South Carolina and Lauren Boebert of Colorado....
...She enrolled in an illustration course at Goldsmiths, where she met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene....
...In a bizarre display of support earlier this week, House Republicans held a fundraising auction for McCarthy’s used cherry lip balm, with controversial Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene placing...
...But part of me thinks that in this Republican caucus, you have more Marjorie Taylor Greene types who were not there 10 years ago,” said J Miles Coleman, of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center...
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