Democrats insisted after helping to keep Mike Johnson as speaker on Tuesday that it wasn’t about protecting him. It was about vanquishing their shared enemy: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“We did not save Mike Johnson,” House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark told NOTUS. “We’re saying no to Marjorie Taylor Greene and her extremism. She’s a chaos agent, and it is time to end the pro-Putin caucus obstruction on the issue of Ukraine aid.”
The question of saving Johnson has been a no-brainer for House Democratic leadership ever since Greene first threatened to trigger a Johnson ouster over foreign aid. When she announced her motion to vacate, she condemned Johnson and called Congress a “uniparty,” claiming that Johnson had betrayed Republican ideals by passing bills with Democratic support.