Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tore into House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday and doubled down on her call for him to be removed from his position, despite concerns that doing so might swing the House majority toward the Democrats.
“Congresswoman, you are making a strong, principled argument. And so I hear you on that. Let me ask you about the politics of this, because the criticism here is that if a motion of vacate ever came, that you could have Democrats all voting for Hakeem Jeffries, and you’ve got some RINOs, lots of them, maybe at least a handful if they side with Democrats. You have Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House. That’s the danger?” Greene was asked by David Brody on Real America’s Voice.
“But, you know, you want to know something that is the twist and the spin that everyone is trying to throw out at me on this,” Greene replied as Brody interjected, “It’s not true?”
“But let me tell you, it’s a math. This is simple math. The more Republicans like Mike Gallagher that resign and leave early, guess what that means? We have less Republicans in the House. So every time a Mike Gallagher or a Ken Buck leaves early, that brings our numbers down and brings us dangerously closer to being in the minority,” Greene continued, shifting the blame.
“It’s not Marjorie Taylor Greene that is saying the inconvenient truth and forcing everyone to wake up and realize Republican voters are done with us doing this kind of crap that we did last week, and they are fed up with speakers of the House and Republicans that go out and campaign and make all these promises and then turn around and stab their voters in the back, because that’s what Mike Johnson did on Friday,” Greene fumed, adding:
And that’s what he led our conference to do on Friday. I am not going to be responsible for Hakeem Jeffries being speaker of the House. I am not going to be responsible for a Democrat majority taking over our Republican majority. That lies squarely, squarely on the shoulders of these Republicans that are leaving early because they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to handle the real fight and the responsibility that comes with leadership at the end of our republic, when our country is nearly destroyed and when our constitution is being ran through a paper shredder.
So no one is going to blame that on me. David, I’m going to tell you exactly what I’m going to do. I will be so careful and responsible with this. You want to know why I care about our majority? I am one of the few Republican members in the House that has actually paid all of my dues to the NRCC, and I did that because I want the majority and I want the majority next Congress, and I will fight for it. But I am not going to be silly, you know, nilly willy or be irresponsible with this motion to vacate. I will bring it to a floor vote at a time that I think is needed or responsible, or a good time to do it. But this is a pink slip. Johnson is on notice, and our conference needs a new speaker of the House.
Greene filed a motion to vacate the chair, remove the speaker, last week after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill. The motion to vacate successfully removed then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) last year, the first time in history it had been used successfully. Greene would need to force her motion to the floor and get a majority of the House to vote for it in order to remove Johnson from the speakership.
Watch the clip above via Real America’s Voice.
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