The Daily Blast: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Rage at Mike Johnson Has Gone Nuclear. Why?

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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All of a sudden Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to be attacking House Speaker Mike Johnson almost daily over all kinds of things, especially his promise to find a way to pass military aid to Ukraine. Does that mean Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans will successfully thwart that effort? Why is the House GOP in such chaos, anyway? We chatted with GOP lobbyist Liam Donovan, a Twitter virtuoso and shrewd observer of Republican politics, who helped demystify all the crazy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.0	Hell hath no fury like Marjorie Taylor Green scorned.
1:25.0	Scorned by House Speaker Mike Johnson, that is.
1:29.0	At this point, Representative Green seems to be attacking Johnson almost every day, over aid to Ukraine, over
1:35.7	funding for the Justice Department, and over illegals that Johnson is supposedly helping release
1:40.8	into the country. Green's crusade against Johnson, while amusing in a deeply twisted way,
1:47.0	raises some very consequential questions.
1:50.0	What's really going on with the Maggareite in the house right now?
1:53.2	How much leeway will they give to Johnson to deliver some sort of aid package on Ukraine
1:58.2	as he's pledged to do?
2:00.3	How much leverage is Donald Trump really wielding over the House GOP?
2:04.0	The stakes here are really high.
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