Top Republicans mull idea that Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership days numbered, ‘effective Speaker’ needed

Congress today passed a $1.7 Trillion spending bill to avert a government shutdown, the 1,000 page bill was given to Republicans less than 24 hours before being told to vote on it, contradicting Republican House Leadership rule that states 72-hour must be given to members to read bills before voting on them. Just after the vote passed Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene filed motion to remove Speaker Mike Johnson. Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson and South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman say that there are talks amongst Republicans of finding “more effective Speaker” than current Speaker Mike Johnson after large disappointment.

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