The Daily Blast: Why Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fury Is About to Get Worse for the GOP

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Now that Mike Johnson allowed Ukraine aid to pass the House on a broad bipartisan basis, an enraged Marjorie Taylor Greene is ramping up her threats to oust the Speaker. But a funny thing has happened: For many reasons, Greene’s efforts could end up accomplishing little for the MAGA right, even as they do more to endanger GOP control of the House. We chatted with Democratic Representative Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, a shrewd observer of all these dynamics, about the possibilities of more coalition governing, the future of MAGA in the House, and the threat posed by the ticking time bomb otherwise known as MTG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	On Tuesday, April 23rd at 6 p.m. the DSR Network and the New Republic will be co-hosting an evening featuring a conversation with Secretary of Transportation, Pete Budajudge.
0:13.7	The event will take place at the National Press Club.
0:17.3	If you are a member and live or will be in the D.C. area and would like to attend, please email Riley Fessler at R.M.
0:27.0	Fessler at TRG Media.com, that's R M-F-E-S-S-L-E-R at TRG media dot com. We have a few seats still available and would love to see you there. This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:59.0	I'm your host, Greg Sergeant. Now that Mike Johnson has allowed Ukraine aid to pass the
1:07.7	house which it did over the weekend by a large bipartisan margin, Marjorie Taylor Green is angrier than ever.
1:15.0	She is reiterating her threat to hold a vote to Alce Johnson as speaker,
1:19.0	which could come as early as this week.
1:21.0	But something funny has happened here. For various reasons,
1:25.1	Green's efforts could end up accomplishing little for the Maga right even as they
1:29.8	end up doing more to imperil the Republican Party's hopes of keeping control of the House.
1:36.2	To understand why, we've invited Democratic Representative Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania back on the
1:41.8	show because he's one of the shrewder
1:44.1	observers out there of how all these house dynamics really work. Welcome back
1:49.0	Congressman. Great to be back with you. Okay so so the House has passed the package of bills, including $60 billion in aid to Ukraine
1:58.0	and $26 billion for Israel, including humanitarian assistance, and the Senate is expected to move them
2:03.8	forward this week. President Biden will sign them and Marjorie Taylor
2:09.1	Green still hasn't given up. Here's what she told Fox News over the weekend.
2:14.0	Mike Johnson has betrayed America. He's betrayed Republican voters.
2:18.0	Under his leadership, he's passed the Democrat agenda, passed the Biden administration's policies and fully funded them.
2:25.2	We're going to fight in Congress to do everything we can to stop this type of uniparty leadership.
2:30.4	Mike Johnson's speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chris Cotnoir, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Chris Cotnoir and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.