Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is introducing a measure to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Georgia Republican said Thursday on the House floor.

The privileged motion will follow a fast-tracked process that bypasses House committees and has to be considered on the floor within two days.

Democrats are likely to respond to Greene’s resolution by pushing a retaliatory censure against the Republican firebrand herself, citing her history of incendiary rhetoric — including her past flirtations with antisemitic tropes and comparison of vaccine mandates to the Holocaust. Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) had introduced a measure in July, though Democrats opted not to advance it at the time. The brewing tit-for-tat will be an early leadership test for newly minted Speaker Mike Johnson as he navigates the GOP’s razor-thin majority and certain members’ zeal for punishing progressive lawmakers.

Among other issues, Greene’s resolution cites Tlaib’s support for a recent pro-ceasefire protest in a House office building organized by Jewish-led organizations that the conservative dubbed an “insurrection.”

Meanwhile, other lawmakers are prepping several other disciplinary pushes against Reps. George Santos (R-N.Y.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.). Several Republican members of the New York congressional delegation have indicated they’ll mount an effort to expel Santos after his indictment, and other GOP lawmakers have indicated they’ll move to censure Bowman over his triggering of a Capitol complex fire alarm last month. Bowman is pleading guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a fine over the incident.

When asked for comment on the censure push, a Tlaib spokesperson pointed to a defense of the Michigan Democrat by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a fellow member of the progressive “squad.” Bush decried the censure efforts as “Islamophobic and racist” and an “an attempt to discredit her perspective and scare those courageously speaking up for Palestinian human rights.”

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