Top Republicans mull idea that Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership days numbered, ‘effective Speaker’ needed
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John Solomon
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
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Congress today passed a $1.7 Trillion spending bill to avert a government shutdown, the 1,000 page bill was given to Republicans less than 24 hours before being told to vote on it, contradicting Republican House Leadership rule that states 72-hour must be given to members to read bills before voting on them. Just after the vote passed Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene filed motion to remove Speaker Mike Johnson. Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson and South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman say that there are talks amongst Republicans of finding “more effective Speaker” than current Speaker Mike Johnson after large disappointment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and happy Friday a big news day around Washington so many things going on |
| 0:11.7 | there may be a new speaker fight. I just said that yes. I know you're like, no, no, not again. Yep, maybe again. Yeah. Here's why. The Republican-led bill, the 1.2 trillion dollar Christmas tree bill, the minibus, went into Congress today. |
| 0:26.6 | It was passed, but mostly with Democrat votes. |
| 0:28.9 | Mike Johnson needed the Democrats, and this bill is chock full of money for a gay senior citizen home and |
| 0:36.1 | transgender surgeries and abortion clinics and even tuition for Egyptian college |
| 0:41.7 | students. Why are we paying for Egyptians to go to college? |
| 0:44.2 | It was so angering to so many Republicans who voted against it that Marjorie Green basically |
| 0:49.2 | came out and said, I'm done with Mike Johnson. She filed a motion to vacate the chair. It won't get |
| 0:54.5 | considered this week. It will be delayed until after the Easter holiday, but |
| 0:58.5 | warning signs for Mike Johnson all across the board and in today's show I have two interviews with two members of Congress who are Mike Johnson fans |
| 1:08.4 | They share his political views both who say I'm pretty sure you can hear this, that they think Mike Johnson's time is up. |
| 1:16.1 | One of them is Warren Davidson of Ohio. |
| 1:18.7 | The other is the great South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman. |
| 1:23.2 | We're going to focus on the instability, |
| 1:25.4 | dissatisfaction, the unhappiness in Congress |
| 1:28.9 | throughout today. |
| 1:29.6 | So both Warren Davidson and Ralph Norman are going to give us an update on that. |
| 1:34.0 | Right after the motion to vacate was filed by Marjorie Taylor Green, |
| 1:38.0 | Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher, he bailed. |
| 1:41.0 | He said, I'm not even going to finish out my term. He's like the second or third one to do this. |
| 1:45.0 | Bye bye, I'm leaving. And that will leave at the end of, or in the middle of April. |
| 1:49.0 | Republicans will only have a single seat majority. |
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