Brendan Buck on MTG’s Motion to Vacate: I Find It Very Hard To See Dems Doing to Johnson What They Did to McCarthy

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BUCK: "Yeah, as we’ve discussed before, I think this is entirely about Ukraine. She framed it as about the last spending bill, but I think she is trying to get ahead of what Johnson said is the next priority, which is funding for Ukraine. Look, Johnson is being much more forward-leaning on this issue than I actually expected him to be. He’s outright said this is their next priority. If he wasn’t serious about it, I don’t know why he would say that. So I expect that Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to try to make this motion. It’ll be around Johnson trying to move money for Ukraine. And I think it could completely blow up on her in that I find it very hard to see Democrats doing to Mike Johnson what they did to Kevin McCarthy. As we know, it only takes a few Republicans to do this if all the Democrats are voting with them. But if all the Democrats are not voting with them, then this could easily fail and this threat that's been hanging over speakers for a long time could quickly go away and ease passage for Ukraine funding."