Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced her distaste for Speaker Mike Johnson.
It was Johnson’s rise that caused Greene to abruptly resign her seat in the House of Representatives.
When former Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally won the speakership in early 2023 after weeks of voting and negotiating, one of the things he did was form an alliance with Greene and elevate her to a more prominent position.
Greene was given back her committee assignments and placed on plum committees.
Everything changed when former Representative Matt Gaetz orchestrated the motion to leave, which led to McCarthy losing the speakership and causing complete chaos that ended with an exhausted Republican House majority no one electing Mike Johnson as their background speaker.
Johnson took away Greene’s path to more in the House, and then Trump threw salt in the wound by putting Kristi Noem in charge of Homeland Security, a job for which Greene was qualified because she served on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Trump banished Greene to the DOGE subcommittee in the House of Representatives and suppressed her ambitions to run for U.S. Senate or governor in Georgia. Greene’s support for the Epstein files was the public breakthrough, but the rift between Greene and Trump had been building for quite some time.
The lingering legacy of Greene’s resignation is that it sets in motion a chain of events that could leave Republicans in the House of Representatives with a zero-vote majority.
Here’s how that could happen very easily.
Keep reading below for more.
