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At a time when Republicans want voters to give them more<\/em> power, by putting them in control of the Senate and White House with ballots in November, let\u2019s take a look at the job they\u2019ve done running the House. The 118th Congress, first under Speaker Kevin McCarthy<\/strong> and now Mike Johnson,<\/strong> has truly been a do-nothing Congress, responsible for an anemic 47 laws<\/a>; the original \u201cdo-nothing Congress,\u201d which Harry Truman ran against<\/a> in the 1940s, actually passed 906 bills<\/a>. And several of the bills passed by the current GOP majority have simply been meant to keep the government open, with Johnson and company again bringing the country to the brink of a shutdown before Congress passed<\/a> a $1.2 trillion spending bill a little after 2 a.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n Johnson, of course, is in way over his head<\/a>, having vaulted from backbencher to the most senior official in the House after three Republicans<\/a> with more leadership experience failed to get the votes. What pushed<\/a> Johnson over the top was not his talent for legislating nor his dexterity with vote counting, but instead the work he did<\/a> with Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s election-denial scheme. Johnson promoted the fringe \u201cindependent state legislature\u201d theory that even the Trumpified Supreme Court shot down<\/a>. This is the person Republicans chose, unanimously, for the Speaker job, which is a really hard gig, even if Nancy Pelosi<\/strong> made it look easy.<\/p>\n The ascension of Johnson came in the weeks after McCarthy was ousted by the \u201cGaetz eight\u201d<\/a> for passing a debt-limit deal<\/a> and helping prevent the economy from crashing (though it may have also been<\/a> payback from Matt Gaetz<\/strong> for a congressional ethics investigation). And now Johnson finds himself potentially on the chopping block for keeping the government funded. Marjorie Taylor Greene,<\/strong> a charter member of the burn-it-all-down<\/a> GOP caucus, filed a motion to remove<\/a> Johnson after the spending package passed.<\/p>\n \u201cI filed a motion to vacate today, but it\u2019s more of a warning and a pink slip,\u201d Greene told<\/a> reporters Friday. It was a statement that, in typical MTG fashion, made little sense; something that is a pink slip is very much not a warning but a firing. Greene, a former McCarthy ally who opposed his removal, added that she did \u201cnot wish to inflict pain on our conference and to throw the House into chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n