Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to remove Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who has held the role for five months after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted by the most conservative members of his caucus. Jimmy Fallon joked that Greene cannot take the role herself because 'she's too busy being the House screamer.' the House screamer.”
After the House approved the bipartisan bill to fund the government and avoid a shutdown, Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker. Fallon began, 'Marjorie made the decision after listening to her colleagues, constituents, and Zoltron, Supreme Leader of Glargnak 6.' He added as a tag to the joke, 'It lives in Canada, goes to a different school. You probably don't know it.'
Greene chose to file the motion against Johnson as a regular motion, which means it will need to go to committee before it can be voted on. If she had filed it as a privileged motion, it would have been voted on within two legislative days.
Greene admitted to reporters that she hoped the filing would serve as a warning to Johnson. She stated, 'I'm not saying that it won't happen in two weeks or it won't happen in a month or who knows when. But I am saying the clock has started. It's time for our conference to choose a new speaker.'
As of Friday, the House went on a two-week recess, so the earliest the motion will likely be considered is April 9.
NBC News reported that Rep. Matt Gaetz, who introduced the motion to oust McCarthy, disagrees with Greene's motion.
'If we vacated this speaker, we'd end up with a Democrat,' Gaetz said. 'When I vacated the last one, I made a promise to the country that we would not end up with the Democrat speaker. And I was right. I couldn't make that promise again.'
That’s due to how difficult it was to land on Johnson before — given another round of votes, it’s possible that Democrats would be able to land enough support to get a compromise member of their own into the position.
Watch Jimmy Fallon's joke in the video above.
