{"id":118283,"date":"2024-01-12T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T09:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/is-mike-johnson-going-to-lose-his-speaker-gig-kevin-mccarthy-style\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T09:35:15","slug":"is-mike-johnson-going-to-lose-his-speaker-gig-kevin-mccarthy-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/is-mike-johnson-going-to-lose-his-speaker-gig-kevin-mccarthy-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mike Johnson Going to Lose His Speaker Gig, Kevin McCarthy Style?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Back in October\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/10\/kevin-mccarthy-matt-gaetz-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as in simply three months in the past<\/a>\u2014House Republicans ousted <strong>Kevin McCarthy<\/strong> from his gig as Speaker, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/10\/mike-johnson-house-speaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed him with <strong>Mike Johnson<\/strong><\/a> after a number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/10\/republicans-blame-democrats-for-speaker-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">very embarrassing weeks<\/a>. So the concept the identical group of lawmakers would flip round and provides their new Speaker the heave-ho two seconds after giving him the job would appear, to most individuals, insane. But apparently, the far proper has no problem with that!<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 13 ultraconservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/10\/us\/politics\/house-republicans-johnson-deal-shutdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tanked<\/a> an try by Johnson to avert a authorities shutdown, blocking a procedural step in protest of a deal the Speaker struck with Senate majority chief <strong>Chuck Schumer<\/strong> for $1.66 trillion in spending this yr. Leaving a convention assembly, Representative <strong>Warren Davidson<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/gop-holdouts-ousted-kevin-mccarthy-now-mike-johnson-feels-the-heat-c97bd3d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instructed<\/a> reporters, \u201cI\u2019m not going to sit in there and listen to that drivel because [Johnson] has no plans to do anything except surrender.\u201d\u00a0Asked if Johnson must be faraway from his management function, Davidson responded, \u201cHe should have never been hired.\u201d And it could appear he\u2019s not the one one who feels that manner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Earlier within the week, Representative <strong>Chip Roy<\/strong> refused to verify that Johnson\u2019s job is protected:<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content material<\/h4>\n<p>This content material will also be seen on the positioning it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1744548348772630561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Later, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/chip-roy-says-booting-mike-johnson-speakership-table?intcmp=tw_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mentioned<\/a> firing Johnson was \u201con the table.\u201d On Thursday, Representative <strong>Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/strong> confirmed the Speaker dangers shedding his job.<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content material<\/h4>\n<p>This content material will also be seen on the positioning it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewSolender\/status\/1745500390588547293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Back in October\u2014as in simply three months in the past\u2014House Republicans ousted Kevin McCarthy from his gig as Speaker, and changed him with Mike Johnson after a number of\u00a0very embarrassing weeks. So the concept the identical group of lawmakers would flip round and provides their new Speaker the heave-ho two seconds after giving him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}