During this week’s broadcast of FOX News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) spoke out about the changes initiated by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) He dismissed it as a “distraction.”
Mr. Johnson said he intended to resolve his differences with Mr. Greene.
“How does it help a razor-thin Republican majority to talk about a motion to resign instead of talking about the border or inflation or other issues that are favorable to Republicans?” Host Trey Gowdy he said. “How does this motion to resign help us regain a majority, or even a larger one?”
“I don’t think so, and I think all my Republican colleagues recognize that this is a diversion from our mission,” Johnson said. “Again, the mission is to save the Republic. And the only way we can do that is by increasing our House majority, winning the Senate, and winning the White House. So for now we have doesn’t need any dissent. Look, Marjorie Taylor Greene filed the motion. It’s not a privileged motion, so it doesn’t move automatically. It’s just hanging there. And she’s frustrated. . She and I exchanged text messages even today. We plan to talk early next week. Marjorie is a friend. She’s very unhappy about, for example, the last appropriations bill. Guess what? We discussed it. You’re right, so am I, Trey. These aren’t perfect bills that you and I and Marjorie could write differently.”
“But we’re going to end up passing bills by some of the narrowest margins in American history, and sometimes we don’t like them,” he continued. “And Democrats know that if we don’t all come together, we’re going to be in a better bargaining position with a very thin majority. That’s why there were some things we didn’t like.” Now we fought like warrior poets to keep some of the Senate appropriations and Senate appropriations out of the bill, and we succeeded in getting rid of a lot of terrible things, even if some of them passed. , that’s Marjorie. I’m also angry, but I’d like to talk to her about budget reforms in the upcoming spending process. That’s what the Republican Party is for. If we all come together, this can create transformative change. ”
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