House Democrats ended any chance of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ousting Speaker Mike Johnson Tuesday, with party leadership committing in a Tuesday statement to kill any motion to vacate the Republican leader.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and caucus chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) declared that Democrats were ready “to turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction.”
“We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair,” they said. “If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed.”
Johnson (R-La.) said in a press conference afterward that he was caught off guard by the announcement and had not discussed the move with Jeffries or made any side deals on future legislation.