Live updates: House Speaker Mike Johnson survives vote over ouster
House Speaker Mike Johnson looked forward after a vote to keep his job on Wednesday and stressed that the country needs a “functioning Congress.”
He called the motion to vacate him from his position a distraction and stressed that he would keep fighting to pass issues important to the conservative agenda.
“Hopefully this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress,” the Louisiana Republican said. “It’s regrettable, it’s not who we are as Americans and we’re better than this.”
It comes after the House voted to kill a motion to remove him from the speakership quickly after it was introduced on Wednesday evening by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The vote to kill the effort to oust him succeeded with the help of Democrats.
“The speaker of the House serves the whole House,” Johnson said but added that it is his priority to keep the Republican House majority and win more seats in the November election.
While a failed vote allows Johnson to argue that it is time to move on from the issue, support from Democrats opens him up to even more criticism from his right flank. Last week, Johnson said he did not request the help of Democrats and that he was focused on doing his job.
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