The radicals who have controlled the House are about to be cancelled, at least for now

People wait for a press conference by US Republican Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, and Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, on House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries' endorsement of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson , outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on May 1.

“We now have at least a momentary pause on the extreme right’s ability to dictate much of what goes on in the House,” said Christopher Borick, a political scientist at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. “We’ve seen that segment exert incredible influence on the direction of the party and of Congress and this is a signal of some degree of pushback. You can almost hear people murmuring: Enough is enough.

That is what toppled Mr. McCarthy 19 months ago, making him the only Speaker to be removed from his own onetime supporters. That is the bludgeon that Ms. Greene now plans to employ against Mr. Johnson. Though Ms. Greene says she has the support of several of her colleagues, only two other Republicans, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Paul Gosar of Arizona, have publicly said they will join the effort.

“Mike Johnson is not capable of that job,” Ms. Greene said last week. “He has proven it over and over again. Now we have Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats coming out, embracing Mike Johnson with a warm hug and a big, wet, sloppy kiss.” On X, formerly known as Twitter, she wrote, “Mike Johnson is officially the Democrat Speaker of the House.”

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