A small but vocal group of MAGA Republicans has turned the U.S. House into a circus, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is determined to be the ringmaster.
In a blistering Wednesday news conference on the Capitol steps, Greene vowed to force a vote on the motion to eject Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as speaker of the House.
Greene filed the motion to vacate in late March but waited to call for a vote. In Wednesday's news conference she said that was a warning Johnson didn't heed.
"I was controlled. I was responsible," Greene insisted. "I was being conscious and caring about my conference and our majority."
But Greene doesn't care about the Republican majority. If she did, she would've listened to nearly every one of her Republican colleagues and other top Republican officials who urged her not to take this path. The lack of party unity could put the Republican majority in jeopardy.
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