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Even though House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is the most conservative Republican speaker in decades — if not in U.S. history — he has found an unlikely ally in his efforts to keep the gavel: House Democrats. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) threatened to remove Johnson as speaker after he allowed a vote on a $95 billion foreign aid package to come up on the House floor. Greene’s motion was supported by far-right Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) and Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), meaning that if all Democrats voted with those three, the House of Representatives would have to elect a new…

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