The Speaker has promised to push forward with a Ukraine aid package once the House returns from a two-week break.
RepresentativeĀ Don BaconĀ acknowledged Sunday that it is āpossibleā that Speaker Mike Johnson will lose the top House job over an impending vote on aid to Ukraine. āIām not going to deny it,ā the Nebraska conservativeĀ toldĀ NBCāsĀ 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 thatĀ barely averted a shutdown. Johnson entered the break promising to āturn our attentionā 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 SenateĀ passedĀ a $95 billion bill in February.
George RepresentativeĀ Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has long been staunchly opposed to U.S. aid to Ukraine, filed a motion to vacate Johnsonās speakership right as the House went into recess,Ā warning that Johnson āshould not bring funding for Ukraineā to the House floor. Greene has yet to say when she plans to move forward with the motion.
The Dem rules got removed at the start of the 118th Congress because the GOP had the majority, and it was all done by the GOP as a condition for Kevin McCarthyās speakership.
The Dems had nothing to do with it.
The Democrats have always had much saner rules regarding the Motion to Vacate the Speaker of the House than the GOP has ever had, and the previous set of rules that this new and insane GOP rule replaced was instituted and upheld by Dems throughout the time Nancy Pelosi was Speaker.
Thus, there is literally NO reason for Dems not to support going back to their own much saner rules on the subject, there was no Dem participation is striking this rule, and no historical reason to believe Dems would do anything else.
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 didnāt feel they could with McCarthy.
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The Dems did try to negotiate with McCarthy and he stabbed them in the back.