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Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesOn Wednesday Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) pulled the trigger on her motion to oust Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) from his role as House Speaker.Johnson’s allies in House GOP leadership, however, moved immediately to table her effort.The motion to table—which effectively shuts down Greene’s ouster attempt—passed 359 to 43. Seven lawmakers voted present. 10 Republicans joined Greene in her effort to remove Johnson, including hard-right Johnson detractors Reps. Eli Crane (R-AZ) and Warren Davidson (R-OH).Read more at The Daily Beast.

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastWhen Congress left for a week-long recess on April 20, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had a message for her colleagues: Go home and listen to your constituents.It would be a harmless ask most of the time. But at that fraught moment, with the future of the House GOP on the line, Greene’s proposal landed more like an ultimatum.That same day, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had enraged conservatives by successfully pushing a $95 billion foreign aid package—with a huge tranche of support for Ukraine—through the House. Over half the House GOP conference voted against Ukraine aid.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe push to oust Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House—only months after he first took the job—is gaining momentum and threatening to throw the GOP-led House into chaos yet again.In a closed-door conference meeting on Tuesday morning, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced to his colleagues that he would be co-sponsoring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) resolution to vacate the speakership, according to a source in the room.In a brazen challenge, Massie directly asked Johnson to resign—a request the Speaker declined.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Megan Varner/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has continued his revenge tour during the 2024 election cycle as he endorsed a primary challenger to Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), one of the two remaining Republicans who voted to impeach him in 2021.Late Friday afternoon, Trump sent out a Truth Social post endorsing Newhouse’s primary opponent, Jerrod Sessler, calling him “MAGA all the way” and making clear this endorsement is because Newhouse voted to impeach him following the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.“He is running against a weak and pathetic RINO named Newhouse, who voted to, for no reason, Impeach me. Newhouse has to go!” Trump said in his post.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Rebecca Cook/ReutersFormer President Donald Trump, whose position on abortion has been unclear for the better part of his campaign, said Monday that abortion access should be decided on a state-to-state basis and punted on what he believes the cutoff should be.In a much-anticipated video posted to Truth Social on Monday morning, Trump boasted about getting Roe v. Wade overturned and said that because of the ruling, abortion is a state’s issue and that each state should decide its own law “by vote or legislation or perhaps both.”“Whatever they decide must be the law of the land,” Trump said. “In this case, the law of the state. Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than others and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyAs he campaigns to return to the White House, Donald Trump has nothing but lofty promises for a second term.At rallies and in interviews, Trump has declared he’ll fix the border and radically transform citizenship laws, curb inflation, dramatically increase oil production, enact new trade deals, and protect entitlements—all while somehow cutting taxes.But in the same breath, Trump will often outline an entirely different set of promises for a second term—ones that read more like threats.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesIt’s anarchy again in the House GOP.On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a motion to formally boot Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the office, according to a source familiar with the matter.Greene's move, which came amid conservative outrage over Johnson's deal on a spending deal to avert a government shutdown, threatens to throw the chamber into chaos just months after a hard-right faction ousted Kevin McCarthy from the top job.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyConservative YouTuber Brandon Herrera has already made it to a run-off primary against Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) by painting the congressman as insufficiently far-right. But it turns out Herrera may have a problem on his right when it comes to the most important metric of conservatism among Republicans today: support for Donald Trump.According to footage of Herrera’s Feb. 10 podcast, the GOP challenger can be seen saying he doesn’t believe Trump can win the general election and, more controversially, Herrera joins in with his co-hosts as they ridicule Barron Trump, the former president’s 17-year-old son who’s been off-limits for most politicians.One of the co-hosts refers to Barron as being a “long ventriloquist-like dummy,” looking like “slenderman” and being the new “cryptid”—a creature, like Bigfoot, that only questionably exists. Herrara jumps in and says Barron Trump is “like nine feet tall” and that he is “starting to become a meme” and makes a mocking voice imitating Barron.Read more at The Daily Beast.