Chaos In The GOP As Marjorie Taylor Greene Refuses To Vote For Steve Scalise As Speaker

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is refusing to vote for Rep, Steve Scalise (R-LA) as a result of he has most cancers, which implies that Home Republicans are nonetheless in chaos.

Greene tweeted:

I simply voted for Jim Jordan for Speaker on a non-public poll in convention, and I shall be voting for Jim Jordan on the Home flooring.

I like Steve Scalise, and I like him a lot that I wish to see him defeat most cancers greater than sacrifice his well being in essentially the most tough place in Congress.

I misplaced my father to most cancers and it’s a really critical battle.

We want a Speaker who is ready to put their full efforts into defeating the communist democrats and save America.

We should cease funding overseas wars – Ukraine.

We should cease the weaponized authorities and maintain them accountable.

We should safe our border.

We should shield our children.

And we’d like a full management workforce devoted to this battle in these unprecedented occasions.

Rep. Greene put all of her eggs within the Kevin McCarthy basket. Now that McCarthy has been booted out of energy, Greene has additionally misplaced her energy and affect. Greene’s tweet ought to be seen as an indication that it isn’t a certain factor that Scalise will turn out to be Speaker. The percentages are that Greene is in search of a deal and extra energy. It’s well-known that she desires to be Donald Trump’s working mate, and she or he had herself able to at the least be thought-about with McCarthy because the speaker.

Many members of the Home Republican caucus wish to make no extra offers with MAGA.

Scalise is on monitor to turn out to be the following Speaker of the Home, but when Greene and others determine to blow it up, there might be nothing however chaos at a time when the nation wants a functioning Home.