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House Democratic leadership announced on Tuesday that if a motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson is brought to the House floor for a vote, they would vote to table the effort — effectively saving the speaker from ouster. Less than an hour later, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated that she will trigger a move to oust Johnson to put members on the record.
Greene introduced a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair last month. Her push to remove Johnson came after a vote to fund the government to prevent a shutdown — which Johnson needed Democratic votes to pass.
«We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed,» the leaders wrote in a statement.
This means Democrats have now put it on the record that they would save Johnson if a motion to vacate is brought to the floor for a vote.
Greene — who had not provided a timeline or any insight into if she will make the motion to vacate resolution privileged, meaning it would force the House to take it up at some point — signaled in a post on X shortly after the Democrats’ announcement that she will force a floor vote to remove Johnson from the speakership.
«Mike Johnson is officially the Democrat Speaker of the House. Here is their official endorsement of his Speakership,» Rep. Greene said in a statement on X, citing the statement from House Democratic leadership.
Greene said he should «resign» or «switch parties.»
«If the Democrats want to elect him Speaker (and some Republicans want to support the Democrats’ chosen Speaker), I’ll give them the chance to do it.
