Mike Johnson has survived an attempt to oust him as Speaker of the House of Representatives by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a hardline Republican congresswoman from Georgia, putting a lid on a period of infighting that has consumed the party in Congress.
In a vote on Wednesday evening, the House rejected Greene’s bid to move ahead with a motion to unseat Johnson, with Democrats joining most Republicans to rescue the Louisiana legislator, who became the top lawmaker in the lower chamber of Congress last October.
The vote all but ensures that Johnson will remain in his post until after the November election, unless there is a new flare-up in tensions within the party.
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