Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after the Republican-led House last week pushed through a massive $1.2 trillion bipartisan federal funding package to avert a government shutdown. ) supported the motion to remove Chairman Mike Johnson.
“Republicans are tired of it. Republican voters want the fighters in the House to fight like President Trump, and that’s exactly what I’m doing,” she told Fox News’ Malia on Sunday. -Told Bartiromo.
“I force change. I’m not causing chaos. I’m forcing change.”
Republican hardliners furious at Johnson after passing separate short-term spending bill with Democrats: ‘CP as usual’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol during a vote on TikTok legislation on March 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
House conservatives like Greene remain dissatisfied with the package, which expands on policies previously laid out by the Democratic-controlled Congress, with massive spending and a lack of Republican policy riders. It claims to be a thing.
It’s evidence of a continuing political battle in the party that ousted former California Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker last October, an effort led by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. .
McCarthy’s successor is currently attracting attention among some members of the party.
“Speaker Johnson has only been Speaker for six months and he has led us into a complete disaster. We passed a second, gigantic omnibus bill. You have to read 1,012 pages in a day, and Chuck Schumer can’t pass any amendments to make changes to this bill. [the] Democratic Party wish list [kept] Biden’s disastrous border policy moves forward,” Greene said.
House passes $460 billion government funding bill over pushback from hard-line Republicans
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) speaks to reporters during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC, on February 14, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Americans are tired of the failures in the House of Representatives,” she continued. “We are barely hanging on as a republic with over $34 trillion in debt, and we can’t have a Republican Speaker of the House willing to do Chuck Schumer’s bidding and hand over the gavel and let him pass. ” The House Schumer bill passed and none of us Republicans can do our jobs. ”
In response to the motion, Prime Minister Johnson’s office told FOX News Digital, “Speaker Johnson always listens to the concerns of his constituents, but remains focused on governing. Secure our borders, strengthen our national defense, and… It shows how we grow our majority.”
At the forefront of Republicans’ concerns is the border crisis, which received most attention with the recent death of Laken Riley, an Augusta University nursing student who was killed by an illegal immigrant on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Georgia, last month.
Marjorie Taylor Greene submits motion to Chairman Johnson
Night view of the Capitol dome in Washington DC on October 20, 2022. Congress passed a massive federal funding package signed by President Biden on Saturday. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Recent footage of migrants rushing across the southern border only exacerbates concerns.
Meanwhile, Greene said the massive bill signed by President Biden on Saturday will not ensure border security and that “we will do everything in our power to stop the Biden administration’s horrific border incursions, the deadly border incursions that continue every day.” I’m doing my best,” he said.
“House Republicans have passed incredible border security bills like HR2 and the Laken Riley Act. Speaker Johnson’s only chance to truly secure the border is with the power of the purse, and that’s what we’re going to do with these funding bills. Yes. If Chairman Johnson really wanted to secure the border,” as he promised all of us… then he would have said to Chuck Schumer, “We will secure the next government funding.” I won’t pass the bill.” [they] H.R. 2, or the Laken-Riley Act, or at least some of those measures,” which he did not do. He completely failed in that regard,” she added.
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FOX News’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
