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GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Some Republicans “want Russia to win so badly” they may oust Speaker Johnson

GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Some Republicans “want Russia to win so badly” they may oust Speaker Johnson

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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s, R-La., decision to hold a long-delayed vote on aid for Ukraine could cost him his job because some of his fellow Republicans would much prefer the government in Moscow to the one in Kyiv, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said Thursday. In February, the U.S. Senate passed a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel, but only this week did Johnson promise to hold a vote in the lower chamber, saying he intends to break the package up into separate bills. That comes as Ukraine’s military is running out of ammunition and Russia is making territorial gains. But Johnson’s decision has thrown the Republican caucus into turmoil. The party’s base has been suspicious of Ukraine ever since former President Donald Trump falsely accused its government of intervening in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Now the more extreme MAGA wing, led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is in open revolt, threatening to do to Johnson what they did to his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Speaking to …

Mike Johnson moves ahead with foreign aid bills despite threats to oust him | Republicans

Mike Johnson moves ahead with foreign aid bills despite threats to oust him | Republicans

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The House speaker, Mike Johnson, is pushing ahead with his plan to hold votes on four separate foreign aid bills this week, despite threats from two fellow Republicans to oust him if he advances a Ukraine funding proposal. Shortly after noon on Wednesday, the rules committee posted text for three bills that would provide funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The text of a fourth bill, which is expected to include measures to redirect seized Russian assets toward Ukraine and force the sale of TikTok, will be released later on Wednesday, Johnson said in a note to members. The legislation would provide $26bn in aid for Israel, $61bn for Ukraine and $8bn for US allies in the Indo-Pacific. The Israel bill also appeared to include more than $9bn in humanitarian assistance, which Democrats had demanded to assist civilians in war zones like Gaza. Johnson indicated final votes on the bills were expected on Saturday evening, interfering with the House’s scheduled recess that was supposed to begin on Friday. If the House passes the bills, they …

“We’re screwed”: Congressional Republicans could oust Speaker Mike Johnson over Ukraine funding

“We’re screwed”: Congressional Republicans could oust Speaker Mike Johnson over Ukraine funding

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Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to move forward with long-stalled Ukraine aid has spurred a MAGA revolt, with Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky joining forces with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to call for his removal at a closed-door GOP conference on Tuesday, Politico reported.  Amid rising frustrations among conservatives with the speaker’s proposed aid package, Massie became the first Republican to openly embrace Greene’s effort to force a vote on Johnson’s ouster sometime in the near future. Other far-right Republicans say they are open to the idea. Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry, for example, said he is willing to consider Johnson’s ouster if the supplemental passes by the end of the week. Perry said that, within the GOP ranks, “there’s always an alternative.”  But many Republicans also fear a repeat of the Kevin McCarthy saga, when another far-right rebellion cost a House Speaker their job. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who has been proposed by some members of the far-right Freedom Caucus as a potential alternative to Johnson, said he does not support ousting the current speaker …

Matt Gaetz worries House may “end up with a Democrat” speaker after MTG files to oust Mike Johnson

Matt Gaetz worries House may “end up with a Democrat” speaker after MTG files to oust Mike Johnson

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Friday filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown, NBC News reports. Greene did not file the motion as privileged, which would force a vote within two days, but could notice it as privileged after the House returns from a two-week recess on April 9. Greene said she filed the motion because Johnson forced a vote on multiple continuing resolutions and funding bills to keep the government running. “This is a betrayal of the American people. This is a betrayal of Republican voters,” Greene told reporters. “I filed the motion to vacate today but it’s more of a warning and a pink slip … I do not wish to inflict pain on our conference and to throw the House in chaos but this is basically a warning and it’s time for us to go through the process, take our time, and find a new speaker of the House,” she said. Raj Shah, a spokesman for Johnson, told NBC News the …

Minister tries to quash rumours of plot to oust Rishi Sunak | Politics News

Minister tries to quash rumours of plot to oust Rishi Sunak | Politics News

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Rishi Sunak will lead the Tories into the next general election, the transport secretary insisted, amid reports of a plot to oust the prime minister. Mark Harper dismissed speculation some Conservative rebels want the prime minister to be replaced with Commons leader Penny Mordaunt. Politics Live: Lib Dem leader urges members to ‘bring blue wall tumbling down’ Asked on Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips if Mr Sunak will still be leader at the next election, Mr Harper said: “Yes he will. “And he’ll take us into that election and he’ll set out very clearly that we’re a government with a plan.” Asked on the rumours about Ms Mordaunt, he said his colleagues should focus on what is “right for the country”. “That is the approach that the prime minister takes as well,” he added. “He focuses on making the right decisions, even if in the short term they’re not necessarily popular…. I’m confident those decisions will pay off.” Replacing Mr Sunak would involve imposing a sixth prime minister on the country since the 2010 general …

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk helped oust Ronna McDaniel at the RNC. Now the knives are out for him.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk helped oust Ronna McDaniel at the RNC. Now the knives are out for him.

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For more than a year, Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and MAGA influencer, was aimed like a heat-seeking missile toward one goal — ousting Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. It’s a battle he won. Just this week, former President Donald Trump endorsed a new slate of leaders to head the party apparatus and signaled that McDaniel’s four terms would soon come to an end. Few Republican groups have had as meteoric a rise as Kirk’s Turning Point USA, which launched in 2012. It sought to activate young conservatives and saw its fortunes grow as it attached itself to the Trump movement in 2016. The organization has raised roughly a quarter-billion dollars since, as The Associated Press reported last fall, with its fundraising exploding during the Covid pandemic. But the RNC effort has Kirk increasingly under the microscope in Trump world. In recent weeks, at least three people, including McDaniel herself, have privately warned Trump about Kirk’s conduct, seven sources familiar with the discussions told NBC News. Kirk came up during her conversation with the former …

Guy Philippe, former rebel, calls for ‘revolution’ to oust Haiti’s Henry

Guy Philippe, former rebel, calls for ‘revolution’ to oust Haiti’s Henry

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The crises here keep compounding. Armed gangs have forced more than 300,000 from their homes. The police are outgunned and overmatched. Half the people don’t have enough to eat. This Caribbean nation of 11 million has no democratically elected officials. The National Assembly is empty. The presidency is vacant. That’s left Ariel Henry, the unelected and deeply reviled prime minister, in charge. Appointed by President Jovenel Moïse days before Moïse’s still-unsolved assassination in 2021, Henry was due to leave office on Wednesday, but has so far successfully stymied a political transition. Amid this stew of instability, Haiti faces a new challenge: Guy Phillippe. The charismatic rebel leader, who in 2004 led the uprising that chased then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from the country for good, is now joining calls for Henry’s ouster. Freed last year from a U.S. prison, he’s won the allegiance of an armed brigade in the Environment Ministry, called last month for “civil disobedience” across the country and appeared in the capital on Tuesday alongside demonstrators demanding the prime minister step …

PopCon Tories Say They Do Not Want To Oust Rishi Sunak

PopCon Tories Say They Do Not Want To Oust Rishi Sunak

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Former prime minister Liz Truss will speak at the launch of Popular Conservatism on Tuesday (Alamy) 3 min read1 hr Senior Conservative MPs will stress that the new Popular Conservatism movement being launched on Tuesday does not aim to attempt to oust Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as Tory leader. Former prime minister Liz Truss, ex-Cabinet minister Jacob Rees Mogg and erstwhile deputy chair of the Conservative party Lee Anderson are all expected to make speeches at the central London launch of Popular Conservatism, also known as ‘PopCon’ on Tuesday morning.  According to Mark Littlewood, the right-wing political figure and major Truss ally who is behind the new campaign, it will seek to promote a brand of Conservative politics focussed on “freedom”, including lower taxes and protecting freedom of speech. Writing in The Telegraph, Littlewood, who was formerly general director of libertarian think tank Institute for Economic Affairs, said: “It’s time to give people their freedom back – that was what Brexit was supposed to be about: taking back control”.  Since the event was announced in …

Zelensky to oust Gen. Valery Zaluzhny amid tension over Ukraine mobilization

Zelensky to oust Gen. Valery Zaluzhny amid tension over Ukraine mobilization

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KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told his top commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, that he was firing him in a meeting on Monday, according to a senior official familiar with the conversation — a disruptive military shake-up amid Ukraine’s struggles on the battlefield and after months of friction between the president and the popular general. Zaluzhny remains in his post for now, but a formal presidential decree is expected to confirm his ousting nearly two years into Russia’s invasion and as Moscow’s forces appear to be gaining the strategic initiative on some parts of the front. On Monday, Zelensky’s spokesman, Serhiy Nykyforov, denied that Zaluzhny had been fired. “There is no subject of conversation,” Nykyforov told reporters. “There is no order. The president did not dismiss the commander in chief.” Nykyforov on Wednesday did not immediately reply to messages from The Washington Post seeking any updated comment. A highly anticipated counteroffensive, using soldiers trained by NATO allies and with Western weapons and equipment, reclaimed little territory, falling far short of expectations. Zaluzhny and his American …