House rebels ignore Trump as Johnson faces ouster threat
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House rebels ignore Trump as Johnson faces ouster threat

Mike Johnson (R-LA) hoped Donald Trump could head off a brewing effort to remove him as House speaker.  But he is learning the limits of the former president’s power in an unruly and divided House where even a single Republican defection could prove fatal to his early speakership. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)‚ who is weighing a motion to oust Johnson‚ appeared unfazed by his pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago on Friday‚ where Trump gave the speaker his vote of...