House Democrat leadership announced on April 30 that they would vote to save House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) bid to strip him of the gavel should she activate it.
The Democrat lawmakers said they would vote to table Ms. Greene’s motion to vacate should she bring it up, while referencing the House GOP leader’s recent help in passing $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific that had been stalled for months.
“If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed,” Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Conn.) and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said in a joint statement.
“From the very beginning of this Congress, House Democrats have put people over politics and found bipartisan common ground with traditional Republicans in order to deliver real results,” the Democrat leaders stated. “At the same time, House Democrats have aggressively pushed back against MAGA extremism. We will continue to do just that.”
In March, in response to Mr. Johnson’s initiative to secure broad Democrat support for $1.2 trillion in government financing, Ms. Greene presented a motion to vacate that she characterized as a “warning” or “a pink slip.”
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Mr. Johnson answered questions at a press conference not long after the statement was released, saying that he did not ask Mr. Jeffries for his support in the face of the motion to vacate.
“I’ve never requested assistance from anyone at all,” Mr. Johnson told reporters at a press conference.
Mr. Jeffries previously refrained from a commitment to save Mr. Johnson but said at a press conference earlier in the month, “I believe a reasonable number of Democrats would not want to see the speaker fall for doing the right thing,” referencing the government spending package that prompted Ms. Greene’s motion.
A similar statement was made by Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.J.), who said: “I will say that I’m the first to give Speaker Johnson a lot of credit for finally putting the foreign aid bill on the floor. We certainly knew that was a risky move within his within his party. Sadly, it shouldn’t be but it was.
“I think there will be Democrats who would rather reward a speaker for doing the right thing than reward Marjorie Taylor Greene, and her effort to overtake the House.”
This is developing and will be updated.
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