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It’s “Possible” Mike Johnson Will Lose Speakership Over Ukraine: Rep. Don Bacon (www.vanityfair.com)

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The Speaker has promised to push forward with a Ukraine aid package once the House returns from a two-week break.

Representative Don Bacon acknowledged Sunday that it is “possible” that Speaker Mike Johnson will lose the top House job over an impending vote on aid to Ukraine. “I’m not going to deny it,” the Nebraska conservative told NBC’s Kristen Welker.

The comment comes as the House enters the second half of a two-week recess, which came on the heels of a tense fight over a government funding bill that barely averted a shutdown. Johnson entered the break promising to “turn our attention” to Ukraine, an issue that has divided the fractious House GOP caucus and kept the U.S. government from approving an aid package, even as the Senate passed a $95 billion bill in February.

George Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has long been staunchly opposed to U.S. aid to Ukraine, filed a motion to vacate Johnson’s speakership right as the House went into recess, warning that Johnson “should not bring funding for Ukraine” to the House floor. Greene has yet to say when she plans to move forward with the motion.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

C’mon. Let’s go for the hat trick

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago

Who's gonna be the next one with the dunce cap?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 7 months ago

Good chance that it'd be Jeffries. It might not be in his interest or Democrats to take it, but the possibility is sitting right there.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Johnson is an idiot if he took the gravel without getting rid of the vacate rule that they added. That is going to make doing anything impossible

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 7 months ago

There is no way that rule would get removed without Democratic support.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 7 months ago

The only issue is whether the Democrats are willing to negotiate with a rump Republican party for support and what that support will entail. It seems like Democrats are willing to negotiate with Johnson in a way they didn't feel they could with McCarthy.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

Dems aren't the ones keeping the rule around.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Dems should cancel out these removals otherwise speakers are just gonna move more toward MTG and her pro-Russian agenda. Give them incentive to not be complete during dickheads

[-] Atom@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Damned if they do and damned if they don't. They either get condemned for helping keep a GOP speaker in place or they get criticized for not helping and getting stuck another freedom caucus pick speaker, after they bicker for a month.

[-] sepi@piefed.social 10 points 7 months ago

It's not possible for MTGs eyes to come any closer together. They're at their closest for the year right now!

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Not with that attitude

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