Momentum grows to remove Johnson over potential change to ouster rule | KLRT [Video]

Momentum is growing quickly behind the effort to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from power if he moves to alter the motion to vacate rule as part of a package of foreign aid that’s expected to pass through the House this weekend.

Johnson is reportedly flirting with a proposal to raise the threshold for forcing a vote on a motion to vacate, which can currently be called by a single lawmaker. That would reverse an agreement that former GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) cut with conservatives in January of last year as a condition of gaining their support for his Speakership.

Johnson, for his part, denied Thursday that he is considering such a modification. But during an interview Wednesday with CNN, the Speaker said the ouster mechanism “has been abused in recent times,” adding “maybe, at some point, we change that.”

The denial has done little to mollify the conservatives, …