No ‘commitment’ on Biden impeachment as Greene threatens to force vote

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) on Tuesday refused to state that he would hold a vote on impeaching President Biden over the situation at the southern border after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) threatened to force a vote on the issue.

“I’m not making any promises this morning,” Johnson said when asked about Green’s comments the previous day. “We’ll just have to wait for the constitutional process and constitutional responsibilities to be met.”

Johnson said Biden may have committed impeachable offenses while in office, but stressed the importance of Congress’ impeachment power and that the process must be respected.

“The power of impeachment is something that we exercise very carefully here. As I’ve said many times, it is the most important power that Congress has, next to the power to declare war. It needs to be exercised very deliberately,” Johnson said.

“I believe President Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States, and there is every possibility that he has committed impeachable offenses,” he added. “The Judiciary Committee has been through a process of investigation, it’s been reviewed, and that process is still ongoing.”

The comments came less than 24 hours after Greene told reporters she was considering forcing a vote on an impeachment resolution against Biden over his handling of the situation at the southern border, accusing him of violating his oath of office and failing to follow immigration law.

Biden, a Georgia Republican, said she had intended to invoke the resolution on Monday night but decided to wait until she had spoken with Johnson. She made the threat on the eve of Biden’s expected executive order to crack down on the situation on the southern border.

“I’m angry,” she told reporters. “I didn’t come here to meet with everybody and say, ‘Hey, guys.’ People in my hometown are angry. Everyone across this country is outraged. What we want is not a banana republic, we want a real legitimate government. What we want is a real justice system, and right now we don’t have that.”

Johnson and Greene met on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, with the speaker describing the meeting as “productive,” though Greene, R-Ga., rejected the description.

“To me, it’s only productive if action is taken,” Green said.

Asked when they would force a vote on the impeachment resolution — which they had said Monday they would do if Johnson refused to table it — House lawmakers said they wanted to consider Biden’s executive orders first.

“We’re going to continue to have conversations about impeachment,” Greene said. “We’ll have to wait and see what executive orders come out.”

But when pressed about what she wanted from Johnson during the meeting, Greene focused primarily on former President Trump’s conviction in the New York hush-money case, and demanded that the speaker take action to address the guilty allegations.

“I want to say as loud as I can that Republicans across the country and many Americans are sick and tired of the incompetent, ineffective Republican Party and its convention,” she said. “They’re completely sick and tired of the committee hearings, the TV interviews, the interviews here, they’re sick and tired of it.”

“Let’s be honest, when the 34 felony charges against President Trump were turned into guilty pleas, it literally changed the way people in our country felt,” she added.

The congressman said he brought Johnson a “list of ideas” but did not disclose what they were.