House Speaker Mike Johnson could get ousted at any moment. The Senate needs to deal with incoming articles of impeachment for the Homeland Security secretary and confirm more of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees. Both bodies need to tackle a reauthorization of spy powers and the Federal Aviation Administration. Multiple foreign aid fights lie ahead. Meanwhile, there’s a one-seat majority in the House, and Republicans are so deeply fractured that even big preelection messaging bills will be hard to pass.
There are only 15 official work weeks left before the November election, and everything is a mess. Here’s what we’re watching when Congress returns this week.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust the speaker
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been on an anti-Mike Johnson media blitz since the House adjourned for the two-week recess.
She filed a motion to vacate the speakership minutes before the House passed a deal to fund the government on a wide bipartisan margin. At the time, she said it was a warning shot to Johnson to stop working with Democrats, but she has since sounded more serious that she’ll go through with the likely chaotic process of forcing the House to vote on giving Johnson the boot.