Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has made her dislike for Speaker Mike Johnson known.
It was Johnson’s rise that caused Greene to abruptly resign her House seat.
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When former President Kevin McCarthy finally won the presidency after weeks of voting and negotiations in early 2023, one of the things he did was form an alliance with Greene and elevate her to a more prominent position.
Greene regained her committee assignments and was placed on plum committees.
That all changed when former Rep. Matt Gaetz orchestrated the resignation motion that led to McCarthy losing the presidency and sparked complete chaos that ended with an exhausted Republican majority in the House choosing backbench Mike Johnson as speaker.
Johnson blocked Greene from gaining more seats in the House, then Trump threw salt in the wound by putting Kristi Noem in charge of Homeland Security, a position Greene was qualified for because of her service on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Trump banned Greene from the House DOGE subcommittee and crushed her ambitions to run for U.S. Senate or Georgia governor. Greene’s support for the Epstein files was a public break, but the rift between Greene and Trump had been building for a long time.
The lingering legacy of Greene’s resignation is that it sets off a chain of events that could leave House Republicans with a tie-breaking majority.
Here’s how this could very easily happen.
Continue reading below to find out more.