Gaetz suggests Boebert would be a superior House speaker compared to Johnson
Rep. Matt Gaetz jokingly suggested that Rep. Lauren Boebert might be a better House speaker than Speaker Mike Johnson. Gaetz clarified that he is not pushing for Johnson’s removal. When asked if someone could outperform Johnson, Gaetz responded, “I don’t know,” adding that Boebert might excel. This remark by Gaetz coincides with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene contemplating her motion to vacate. Your rewritten text is clear and concise, providing a summary of Rep. Matt Gaetz’s comments regarding Rep. Lauren Boebert, Speaker Mike Johnson, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) quipped on Thursday that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) would make a better House speaker than Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), but he is not calling for a motion to vacate Johnson.
When asked by reporters whether he thinks someone could do better than Johnson as speaker, Gaetz said, “I don’t know,” followed by, “Ms. Boebert could do better.”
Gaetz’s comment comes as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) weighs whether to move forward with her motion to vacate Johnson. The conflict is the latest to surface within the Republican Party, arriving at a crucial time when the House is preparing to vote on a four-bill security supplemental that provides foreign aid to Israel, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific.
The legislation has caused several conservatives to come out against Johnson, particularly those who are against Ukraine aid and want to see action taken at the United States’s southern border first. Many hard-line GOP members have dismissed Johnson’s foreign aid bills as giving up “all the leverage” Republicans had over Democrats to force a vote on border security, despite the supplemental including a separate fifth bill that focuses on the border.
Gaetz said a motion to vacate would “put the conference in peril” and that he “didn’t support one when I woke up this morning.”
“We’re working to avoid that, our goal is to avoid a motion to vacate,” Gaetz said. “But we are not going to surrender that accountability tool, particularly in a time when we’re seeing America’s interest subjugated to foreign interests abroad.”
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The House is preparing to have Friday and Saturday evening votes on the foreign aid bills, but as of Thursday afternoon, the House Rules Committee was still deliberating. Several Republicans on the committee have said they would vote “no” on the rule, meaning a vote on the procedural rule to bring the supplemental to the floor may fall on the shoulders of Democrats.
Leaving their caucus meeting Thursday morning, many Democrats said they were unsure how they would vote on the rule.
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