GOP Hardliners to Force Vote on Removing Speaker Johnson
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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie hold a press conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on May 1.
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Two Republican hardliners announced Wednesday they will force a vote on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, a battle they are virtually certain to lose while inflaming ideological animosity in a bitterly divided party.
House Democratic leaders promised a day earlier to join Johnson’s Republican allies in a parliamentary maneuver to block the effort to remove the speaker, providing him with sufficient numbers to quash the revolt.