My colleague Jeff Charles reported on Sunday that Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) “might be inclined” to support House Speaker Mike Johnson against the GOP faction of Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to remove him as House Speaker.
Charles wrote:
Johnson has managed to anger the conservative faction of House Republicans on multiple occasions, not only supporting more taxpayer funding of other countries but also casting the tiebreaking vote against an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would allow federal agencies to conduct surveillance on American citizens without a warrant.
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But there is reason to believe that if Greene and Massie undertake this effort, it probably won’t turn out as it did for McCarthy.
Rep. James Clyburn explains why he might support House Speaker Mike Johnson if Republican lawmakers try to…
