{"id":2210879,"date":"2024-04-01T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T22:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-holds-motion-to-vacate-over-johnsons-head-as-he-considers-ukraine-aid\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T22:09:32","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-holds-motion-to-vacate-over-johnsons-head-as-he-considers-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-holds-motion-to-vacate-over-johnsons-head-as-he-considers-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens Johnson with motion to vacate as he weighs Ukraine aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarjorie-taylor-greene-holds-motion-to-vacate-over-johnsons-head-as-he-considers-ukraine-aid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Representative Marjorie Taylor\u2062 Greene \u200cfrom Georgia is pressuring House Speaker Mike Johnson from Louisiana by threatening removal if he doesn&#8217;t meet\u200d GOP demands. Johnson plans to proceed with a Ukraine aid bill amid opposition from colleagues like Greene. The motion to vacate threat\u200c by Greene\u200c looms over Johnson as \u2062they \u2063plan to discuss the issue soon. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is leveraging \u2063pressure \u200con House Speaker Mike Johnson of \u2062Louisiana by threatening removal if\u200b he fails to comply with GOP demands.\u2064 Despite opposition from Greene and others,\u2063 Johnson intends\u2063 to advance a Ukraine aid\u2064 bill. The looming threat of the motion\u2062 to vacate by Greene hangs over \u200cJohnson as \u2063they prepare for upcoming discussions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is looking to back House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) into a corner by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2933865\/speaker-johnnson-motion-to-vacate-mtg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>threatening an ouster of his own<\/a> if he doesn\u2019t comply with GOP demands \u2014 but the Georgia Republican hasn\u2019t determined what could push her to pull the trigger. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson is planning to move forward with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/2947089\/speaker-johnson-innovations-ukraine-aid-bill-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>advancing some sort of Ukraine aid bill<\/a> when the House returns to session next week. That could spark ire among some of his GOP colleagues, such as Greene, who have repeatedly rejected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2943423\/zelensky-briefs-speaker-johnson-congress-struggles-ukraine-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>any sort of assistance<\/a> to the wartorn country. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Johnson must also contend with the threat of the motion to vacate filed by Greene before lawmakers left for recess last month hanging over his head. Johnson has pushed back on the threat, decrying the move as a \u201cdistraction\u201d in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to talk early next week,\u201d Johnson said in reference to Greene, noting the two had exchanged text messages last week. <\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s not clear when that meeting could be. Greene told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>that although the two had exchanged messages, they had not scheduled a specific meeting time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I did was text him back and say, you know, enjoy Easter weekend with your family and I hope he gets some rest and maybe we talk next week,\u201d she said. Aside from that, and another text from the speaker on Easter wishing a happy holiday, \u201cthat\u2019s the only communication we\u2019ve exchanged,\u201d Greene added.<\/p>\n<p>In that same interview with Fox News, Johnson laid out the provisions he would like to see in any emerging Ukraine aid proposal, which the speaker called \u201cimportant innovations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson laid out the three main components he said should be included in the legislation, including a bipartisan proposal known as the REPO Act. If included, the provision would seek to seize frozen Russian assets and transfer them to the Ukrainian government to fight against the Kremlin \u2014 a move that Johnson said would be \u201cpure poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another proposal would be to provide assistance to Ukraine as a loan payment that could be repaid once the war is over. Greene balked at that idea, calling it a \u201cbridge to nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most outrageous \u2014 that is the biggest lie,\u201d Greene said. \u201cAnd the only people that believe that lie are in Washington, D.C., because the American people know it\u2019s a lie. The American people know that Ukraine is not going to pay us back any money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a vote on a Ukraine aid bill might not be enough to trigger any motion to vacate, according to Greene, who said she has not made any decisions on what would be her redline. That\u2019s partially because the plan to move forward with Ukraine aid has been in the cards for weeks, she said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was already planned,\u201d Greene said. \u201cThey had been talking about this, so everybody knew this was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has felt pressure from all sides to bring some sort of foreign aid proposal to the floor, including from his Republican colleagues in the upper chamber. The speaker has indicated he will move forward in some fashion to advance Ukraine aid when lawmakers return from recess next week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threatens House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) with a potential ouster if he doesn&#8217;t meet GOP demands. However, she hasn&#8217;t specified the tipping point for her action. 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