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Last month, Marjorie Taylor Greenes GOP colleagues responded to her calls to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson by saying things like, Dont bother us, and stop airing your grievances, and Nobody cares what Marjorie Taylor Greene says or thinks. Unfortunately for Greene (or maybe unfortunately for her coworkers), she did not appear to get the message, and rather than moving on, decided on Wednesday to dig in.

Speaking to reporters in Washington, the far-right congresswoman announced that she will officially raise a motion to vacate Johnson next week, i.e. try to boot him from his leadership position. Claiming Johnson is not capable of doing his job, Greene said she was giving Republicans the weekend to prepare, adding, I care about my conference. It also seems likely shes hoping people will change their minds over the next several days, because currently she appears to have little supporton either side of the aisle. As The Washington Post reports, representatives Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar are the only Republicans whove publicly backed Greenes effort to remove Johnson, while Democrats, who helped oust Kevin McCarthy last year, have said they wont do the same this time around.

On Tuesday, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats would vote to table Greenes motion, which would effectively kill it. Not because they think Johnson is greatas a reminder, hes antiabortion, anti-gay-marriage, and in favor of overturning the 2020 electionbut because they want Congress to be able to operate. (And maybe also because theyre sick of Greenes shit.) Representative Becca Balint told Axios Wednesday that Johnsons positions and actions on LGBTQ rights and reproductive rights are abhorrent, but added, My constituents and I want a functioning Congress. I will vote to end the chaos and to strip MTG of her power and influence. Referring to the chances of Greenes efforts being successful, a senior House Democrat told the outlet: She is about to realize her inevitable irrelevance.

Greene has claimed her attempt to boot Johnson is, in part, about defending Donald Trump, saying the House leader made a grave error when he funded the Justice Department because said DOJ, according to Greene, wants to imprison Trump for life. Yet Trump has endorsed Johnson publicly. Johnsons other sins, according to the Georgia congresswoman, were reauthorizing a government surveillance bill, and sending $61 billion to Ukraine.

While Greenes attempt to dump Johnson currently appears futile, and the work of an attention-seeking chaos machine, as my colleague Eric Lutz pointed out last month, Matt Gaetzs attempt last year to boot McCarthy seemed similarly fated at firstuntil it was successful. Matt Gaetzs pursuit to oust Kevin McCarthy began as grandstanding too, Lutz wrote. It ended with McCarthy losing his gavel and giving up his seat.

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