Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) has joined a growing number of House Republicans in denouncing Marjorie Taylor Greene and the scant few others who are publicly calling for the ouster of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
“She needs her time in the spotlight, you know, and it’s been a while, and I think it’s one last ditch effort to get attention, is what she’s looking for,” Crenshaw told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Saturday.
“And it’s based in what exactly?” Crenshaw continued. “That Mike Johnson brought bills to the floor that were necessary for our national security that the vast majority of members wanted to vote on? So, allowing the democratic process to move forward, our process that we have in our Constitution to move forward, is apparently the crime of the century according to these people, which warrants a motion to vacate?”
Greene filed a motion to vacate Johnson’s seat before Easter break and announced that she will force a vote on the issue next week. So far, only two other members of Congress have publicly backed her plan — MAGA Republicans Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — and plenty of Republicans have denounced it. For his part, Donald Trump reportedly finds Greene’s actions “embarrassing,” according to The Washington Post.
Crenshaw continued:
Now, what they do is, they make it impossible for the speaker to actually have leverage over the Democrats and get things that we want, like border security. Marjorie Taylor Greene has never tried to lay out a plan to get border security done along with the supplemental package…Tom Massie has never done anything on that front. She’s never written legislation on asylum reform, or anything to do with border security, and a lot of us have.
And, so, they make it impossible for us to have leverage with a very slim majority, and then they turn around and punish the speaker when they can’t make a deal that we want, and then they say, “Oh, it was all their fault, and now the real patriots are taking over.” It’s a game and voters have to stop falling for it.
“They’re not fighting for you, they’re fighting for your attention,” Crenshaw added.
Last fall, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) orchestrated the ouster of then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
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