Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made her dislike of Speaker Mike Johnson well-known.
It was the rise of Johnson that set the wheels in movement for Greene to abruptly resign her seat within the Home.
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When former Speaker Kevin McCarthy lastly gained the speakership after weeks of votes and negotiation in early 2023, one of many issues that he did was kind an alliance with Greene and elevate her to a extra outstanding place.
Greene bought her committee assignments again and was positioned on plum committees.
Every part modified when now former Rep. Matt Gaetz orchestrated the movement to vacate that led to McCarthy shedding the speakership and set off full chaos that ended with an exhausted Republican Home majority choosing back-bench no one Mike Johnson to be their speaker.
Johnson took away Greene’s path to extra within the Home, after which Trump threw salt within the wound by placing Kristi Noem answerable for Homeland Safety, a job that Greene was certified for as a result of her serving on the Home Homeland Safety Committee.
Trump banished Greene to the DOGE subcommittee within the Home and squashed her ambitions to run for US Senate or governor in Georgia. Greene’s help for the Epstein recordsdata was the general public break, however the cut up between Greene and Trump was constructing for a very long time.
The lingering legacy of Greene’s resignation is that it units into movement a collection of occasions that would go away Home Republicans with a zero-vote majority.
Right here is how that would very simply occur.
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