Dems will deliver Republican Party ultimatum to Marjorie Taylor Greene

Last week, Greene was officially awarded seats on the House Education and Work Committee and the House Budget Committee.

Republicans, however, have been slow to act, with McCarthy saying only that he is planning to have a “conversation” with Greene about the growing controversies later this week. And Greene showed no contrition for her previous actions, tweeting over the weekend that she “will never apologize”.

The precise path that Democrats would take to remove Greene from these committees has yet to be determined, but party leaders have several options.

Hoyer’s spokesman did not immediately respond to the comment.

In a leadership call on Sunday, the top Democrats discussed a direct motion that would go through the House Rules Committee. This would be separated from a resolution led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Which would also remove the Georgia Republican from anywhere on the House panel.

“We are focused on ensuring that we can render this member’s poisonous nature impotent,” Wasserman Schultz told reporters on Monday, just before presenting his measure. “The Chamber must be able to take steps to police its own members.”

A growing number of Democrats in the House say they are determined to punish Greene for his rhetoric and have devised a series of measures to do so. This includes two of the most severe sanctions that can be imposed on a member of Congress: formal censorship and expulsion from the Chamber.

Democrats are not ruling out new actions and say this week’s decision could be a first step.

The effort to force McCarthy’s hand creates even more enigma for the California Republican, who is under increasing pressure from Democrats and some Republican-affiliated groups to act against Greene, but may be reluctant to alienate the party’s Trump wing. The GOP leader, desperate to keep his ranks together, even traveled to Mar-a-Lago last week to make peace with the former president.

And over the weekend, Greene also said he spoke to Trump in the midst of the firestorm and has his full support. This could make it even more difficult for Republican Party leaders to punish Greene. In addition, Greene is under scrutiny for comments he made before his time in Congress, making the issue of penalizing her more difficult.

Still, McCarthy’s allies insist he hasn’t decided how to proceed. Whether he decides to discipline Greene will depend on what their conversation will be like later this week.

McCarthy had a similar face-to-face meeting in 2019 with former MP Steve King (R-Iowa) after he questioned why the term white nationalism was so offensive in an interview with The New York Times. The Iowa Republican showed little remorse during the interaction and, shortly after, McCarthy expelled King from his committees – an attitude that the California Republican likes to preach when pressed for his willingness to hold his own members accountable.

Many Democrats say publicly and privately that they do not expect McCarthy to take action and are preparing their own options. Greene, for his part, remained publicly challenging, although he did delete some of his previous posts on social media.

“If we’re expecting Kevin McCarthy to have a moral compass … it will never happen,” Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), Who represents the location of the Sandy Hook school shooting, told reporters on Monday. demanded the House’s action to remove Greene from all positions on the committee.

Hayes said Greene “lost the right” to sit on a House panel, particularly on the Education Committee. “Her rise at the party is dangerous.”