Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Wednesday that she will call for a vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as early as next week, accusing him of betraying the Republican Party by supporting Democrats’ foreign aid packages and reauthorizing the FISA surveillance program.
“I think every member of Congress needs to take that vote,” Greene declared at a press conference Wednesday morning. “Next week I am going to be calling this motion to vacate. Absolutely calling it. I can’t wait to see Democrats go out and support a Republican Speaker and have to go home to their primaries and have to run for Congress again.”
Congresswoman MTG Holds a Press Conference on Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries' Endorsement of Mike Johnson for Speaker https://t.co/Cw74H4X0Lf
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) May 1, 2024
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“We need leaders in the House of Representatives that are going to get this done,” said Greene, holding up a red “MAGA” hat. “Mike Johnson is not capable of that job.”
Instead, she insisted that Johnson is part of the “MUGA” movement that gives support to Ukraine over the United States.
Greene’s threat of a motion to vacate was first introduced over a month ago in protest of a $1.2 trillion government spending package. Her latest escalation of the ousting effort comes one day after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and his fellow Democrats pledged to kill any efforts to remove the Speaker from his position given his support for recent Democrat-backed legislation.
Despite Greene’s emphatic calls for other Republicans to join her, she has previously acknowledged that the motion is a longshot effort unlikely to succeed. The Republicans hold a razor-thin majority in the House (217-212) and removing Johnson would likely come down to a party-line vote.
Lawmakers are also likely reluctant to relive the three weeks of chaos that played out in October of last year when members of the House Freedom Caucus ousted then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) based on similar objections.
Connor Walcott is a staff writer for Valuetainment.com. Follow Connor on X and look for him on VT’s “The Unusual Suspects.”
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