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Party leaders said their members would join an effort to table any attempt to remove the Republican speaker after he allowed House passage of military aid to Ukraine.
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 Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesHakeem Jeffries, the House minority speaker, and other top Democrats have announced that they will come to the aid of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), agreeing they won't let the embattled Republican lose his job.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) put forward a motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership over a month ago, in an ultimately fruitless effort to stop the House from passing an aid bill for Ukraine.
On Tuesday morning, Jeffries (D-NY), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA) released a statement declaring their intention to shoot down Greene's motion, and "turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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(First column, 7th story, link)
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 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.
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