Speaker Mike Johnson is facing another threat to oust him from leadership as he struggles to navigate a fractured and unruly conference.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is facing renewed motion to vacate threats a day after he introduced a plan to pass foreign aid. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., threatened to force a vote to oust the speaker during remarks in House Republicans’ closed-door conference meeting on Tuesday morning, if the speaker did not willingly step aside first. He's the second conservative to do so after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed a motion to vacate against Johnson last month.
Asked about the chaos wrought in October during the race to replace McCarthy, Massie said, 'We ended up with some guy nobody in America ever heard of.' A defiant Johnson said at his weekly press conference afterward, 'I am not resigning.' 'It is, in my view an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion. We're simply here trying to do our job. It is not helpful,' Johnson said.
think if the speaker ignores the obvious desire of the conference to include border control , and I think a lot of people who want part of this to be paid for, I think he ignores that at his own risk,' House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told Fox News Digital. Meanwhile, Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital of Massie's threat, 'I think it's ridiculous. Speaker Johnson is doing the best job that he can with a divided conference. I think it's about time we come together.' Massie said he would sign onto Greene's existing resolution to vacate Johnson. But unless they file it as a privileged motion, as was the case with McCarthy, there is nothing compelling House Republican leadership to hold a vote.
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