House Rejects Effort To Oust Speaker Mike Johnson

May 9, 2024 5:07 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardline Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tried and failed to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. But the resounding rejection by Democrats and Republicans does not end the political chaos. One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson had committed as speaker. Colleagues booed in protest, and Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise quickly countered by calling for a vote to table Greene’s motion. An overwhelming majority, 359-43, kept Johnson in his job, for now. But any lawmaker can try to remove the speaker, and Trump said at some point there “may very well be” another bid to do so.