Democrats’ Plan to Save the Republican House Speaker

民主党计划拯救共和党众议院议长

The Daily

2024-03-27

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Against all odds and expectations, Speaker Mike Johnson keeps managing to fund the government, inflame the far right of his party — and hold on to his job. Catie Edmondson, a congressional correspondent for The Times, explains why it might be Democrats who come to his rescue.
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  • This is the daily today, against all odds and expectations, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson keeps managing to fund the government, inflame the far right of his party, and still hold on to his job.

  • Now as he prepares for his riskiest move to date, I speak with my colleague Katie Edmondson about why it may be Democrats who save his speakership.

  • It's Wednesday, March 27.

  • Katie, I'd like to start with this dramatic scene that played out in the House of Representatives a few days ago.

  • You happen to be in the room for it, so just describe it.

  • That's right.

  • Well, I was sitting in the press gallery in the House chamber Friday morning watching for a spending vote to go through, and instead, what caught my attention was Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far right lawmaker from Georgia, striding down the center of the aisle on the House floor.

  • And she marched up to the House clerk's desk and she put a piece of paper into the hopper, into the basket for legislation that sits on the House clerk's desk.

  • It immediately set off a rumor mill about what that piece of paper potentially could be.

  • And sure enough, minutes later, we learned that she was essentially taking the first step in the process to call a snap vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.

  • And minutes later, Congresswoman Greene walks down the House steps where I and a number of other reporters were waiting.

  • This is a betrayal of the american people.

  • This is a betrayal of republican voters.