Will Marjorie Taylor Greene face consequences for throwing Congress into chaos with the failed attempt to impeach Mike Johnson? The speaker insists he has no “grudge,” but other Republicans want revenge

Speaker Mike Johnson has insisted he has no grudge against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for trying to get him fired, but other Republicans are fed up with the chaos she and her seditious cohorts have wrought on this Congress.

‘I don’t hold a grudge. I have to work with everyone. I told her last night before she left the room, let’s move on, Marjorie,” Johnson told “Fox and Friends” on Thursday.

Johnson told Politico that he told Greene in the House of Representatives after the vote, “I’m not angry about this. We must work together. And I want to work with you and the ideas that we talked about. I’m still working on it, so I hope we can put this behind us and move on.”

Johnson said Greene showed a willingness to work with him.

Other Republicans have not been so kind to the Georgia firebrand — and some have quietly suggested she be removed from committees.

However, Johnson has already indicated that removing members from committees because of retaliation could have consequences, and he is unlikely to heed such calls.

“They probably want to kick me out of committees. They probably want a primary,” Greene acknowledged Wednesday after the failed vote. “I say go ahead.”

Ideas that have been floated include allowing the Republican conference to vote on removing a member from committees or even from the conference itself if they force a motion.

The biggest change, which is less troublesome for Republicans, is the rule in which former Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to allow a single member to make a motion to clear the House and call off a vote in the House of Representatives. to force. That rule change led to his ultimate downfall: the Democrats did not come to the rescue as they did with Johnson.

It is unlikely they can do this before the next Congress. With a one-vote margin and right-wing conservatives opposing it, they would need Democratic help to change the rules. That’s almost certainly further than Democrats are willing to go to help the speaker.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said those who voted to introduce or kill the motion to impeach Johnson would be the ones to deal with the consequences, predicting they would have to “take an ass off their would take away the basis’.

In addition to two moves to impeach speakers, Republicans have thwarted the leadership agenda by opposing typically mundane procedural votes that trigger a final vote on legislation.

Members have already proposed removing Republicans who oppose the Rules Committee chairman’s priority legislation, which would allow nearly all of the bills to pass.

“Members who refuse to support the Chairman’s agenda should immediately resign from the Rules Committee. If they refuse, they must be removed immediately. They are there on behalf of the conference, not themselves,” Rep. Mike Lawler X wrote weeks ago. He reiterated those calls after Wednesday’s vote.

Only 10 Republican colleagues joined Greene in voting in favor of the eviction motion, which would remove the chairman from office.

It took just 30 minutes for her effort to collapse in scenes reminiscent of the circus that led to the vote to get rid of Kevin McCarthy.

Only 43 House members voted in favor of Greene’s motion.

A vote to table or kill, the motion passed by a vote of 359 to 43.

The typically reserved Johnson let loose after the vote: “Hopefully this is the end of the personality politics and frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress.”

Even former President Donald Trump opposed the motion.

Trump defended Greene but said now is ‘not the time’ for her motion, saying it is “his request” that Republicans vote to table the motion — even though the post was made after the vote passed.

‘I absolutely love Marjorie Taylor Greene. She has Spirit, she has Fight, and I believe she will be here for a long time, and on our side,” he wrote.

‘With a majority of one, which will soon grow to three or four, we are not in a position to vote on an eviction motion. At some point that may be the case, but now is not the time.”

Trump continued, “If we show division, which will be portrayed as CHAOS, it will negatively affect everything!”

He called Mike Johnson a “good man who tries very hard.”

Only thirty-two Democrats voted against the effort to overturn the motion, a dramatic reversal from months ago when all Democrats joined eight Republicans in voting to throw out McCarthy.

More Republicans – 11 – voted to impeach Johnson than McCarthy – eight – even when the Louisiana Republican was once presented as the conservative alternative to his California counterpart.

Greene received boos and eye-rolls when she called for her motion during Wednesday’s vote.

Members of the Republican Party accused her of throwing a “tantrum” and seeking attention when she brought her motion to resign to the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening.

“In times like these, you need a bar here,” Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, muttered as he left the House floor.

“You’re not the Republican Party!” Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., heckled Greene as she talked to reporters after the vote.

“Moscow Marjorie has clearly gone off the deep end — perhaps as a result of a space laser,” said Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.

When asked if he thought Greene should be punished, Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., said, “One dumpster fire at a time.”

Meanwhile, in the House of Representatives, Greene denounced the bipartisan spending bill that funded the government for fiscal year 2024, a bill that reauthorized spy tool FISA without warrants and a foreign aid package that did not include border security.