House Republicans are distancing themselves from the effort by two GOP lawmakers to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.
House Republicans were left frustrated on Tuesday after two of their colleagues threatened to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., over his plan on foreign aid. 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,' Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. 'So, you do it again, you're going to end up with the same results.
During a closed-door conference meeting on Tuesday morning, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., urged Johnson to step down or face a possible vote to vacate the speaker’s chair. He’s now signed onto a resolution introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., last month to oust Johnson over his actions on government spending and foreign aid. Johnson, for his part, told reporters he would not step down and called the threats 'absurd.
don't have any comment on motion to vacate. You can ask the two members who are talking about doing that. I don't hear other members talking about doing that,' Good told reporters. 'But I didn't go around cavalierly, flippantly throwing motion to vacate around.' Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., a leadership ally, called the three weeks Republicans spent without a speaker last year 'wasted time.' 'I think it’s an unwanted distraction,' he said. And Rep.
think we have a number of people here that, they don't think past step one, which is why we have so many problems here right now,' he said of the vacate push. 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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