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The Republican Party’s public split between pro-MAGA and anti-MAGA camps now threatens to oust yet another speaker of the House, six months after the historic ousting of Speaker Kevin McCarthy last October. This time, it’s Speaker Mike Johnson’s job at stake, and the key issue at hand is the defense of Ukraine.
Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman dives into the issues surrounding the GOP schism, where Trump stands on the possible ousting of yet another House speaker, and how Trump’s criminal trials may or may not impact any of this in the weeks and months ahead.
Some of you may or may not remember that Kevin McCarthy was the Republican Speaker of the House, and he was ousted by a combination of Democrats alongside some MAGA Republicans. They didn’t like Kevin McCarthy, and they successfully got rid of him, and they replaced him with MAGA Mike Johnson, who is nicknamed “MAGA Mike” because of his predilection and preference for all things MAGA. But all of a sudden, a few Republicans, including radical and repugnant Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, aren’t particularly happy with MAGA Mike Johnson. It relates to Ukraine funding and some other bones to pick that they have with him.
Of course, it is very risky for Republicans to again remove a speaker of the house, disunity could cause all sorts of chaos, their margin in the House is down to the slimmest it can possibly be. And they risk, if they alienate a few Republicans, even though they might maintain in a literal sense a majority, if just a few Republicans become so, what would you call it, resentful of what these MAGA Republicans have done, if just a few Republicans decide “I’m going to abstain from any more votes, or maybe I’ll even join Democrats” [then] you effectively make Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker of the House, and you turn over effective control to Democrats. So there is real risk here to Republicans ousting MAGA Mike Johnson.
