House Speaker Mike Johnson may have former President Donald Trump to thank if he keeps his job.
The embattled Republican speaker met with fed-up and fired-up Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday.
And after the meeting, the usually talkative Greene had little to say about her next move in the push to oust Johnson.
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Greene had already filed a measure to dump Johnson as speaker and has been campaigning for that since the House supported the plan by President Joe Biden and the Democrats to fund Ukraine. She has rallied two prominent conservatives, Reps. Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar, to her cause.
Greene went into the meeting with four demands for Johnson: Enforce the Hastert Rule, meaning a majority of the House Republican majority must support any bill; cut off funding to Ukraine, defund special counsels within the Department of Justice, particularly Jack Smith, who is leading a politically driven case against Trump over allegedly mishandled classified records; and pass funding bills for each federal agency that automatically cut their spending by 1%.
In an interview Tuesday, Greene told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon that her demands were the “easiest, easiest things to ask for.”
“Our voters and people across the country are so sick and tired of Republicans in Washington constantly caving to the pressure” from liberals, Greene said.
“I have high expectations, and they have to be met in full. There is no middle ground. There is no compromise.”
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After the meeting, however, Greene seemed to back away from her threat to force a vote on dumping Johnson this week.
The Wall Street Journal noted Tuesday night that Greene “signaled she was wavering on whether to force a vote to oust him this week after blowback from other Republicans and former President Donald Trump.”
Trump has endorsed Johnson retaining his position. Over the weekend, he reportedly praised Johnson’s work and has talked to Greene behind the scenes to cool her off.
CBS News added Tuesday that Greene “appeared to retreat” from the drive to remove Johnson. Yet she did say that while Johnson was not told a “specific timeline,” that time frame is “pretty short.”
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