Marjorie Taylor Greene has gained an ally in her campaign to oust Home Speaker Mike Johnson from his place as head of the Republican caucus. On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced that he has signed on to co-sponsor Greene’s movement to vacate towards Johnson.
“I simply instructed Mike Johnson in convention that I’m cosponsoring the Movement to Vacate that was launched by [Greene]. He ought to pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we will decide a brand new Speaker with out ever being and not using a GOP Speaker,” Massie wrote on X.
Greene shortly promoted Massie’s announcement. “Speaker Mike Johnson has thrown our GOP convention into chaos by serving the Democrats and passing Biden’s agenda,” Greene (R-Ga.) wrote on X. “Speaker Johnson goes to fund international wars whereas refusing to power [Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer] to carry a trial to question Mayorkas and demanding Joe Biden signal HR 2 into regulation.
“Speaker Johnson should announce a resignation date and permit Republicans to elect a brand new Speaker to place America First and go a Republican agenda. Thanks to [Massie] for cosponsoring my Movement to Vacate. It’s time for a brand new Speaker,” she added.
Final month, Greene filed a movement to vacate towards Johnson, arguing that the speaker — who has held the place since October — had “not lived as much as a single one in every of his self-imposed tenets,” and was successfully appearing as a surrogate for the Democratic minority. In accordance to Axios, the movement could also be delivered to the ground throughout the subsequent a number of days.
Republicans — humiliated by chaos and public shows of incompetence within the aftermath of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster — are deeply skeptical of Greene’s transfer towards Johnson. Massie’s assist for her mission will probably do little to sway the remainder of the get together, which has been fairly vocal about their displeasure.
In keeping with Axios, members of the Republican convention booed the Kentucky consultant when he introduced his calls for in a closed-door assembly.
“It’s a clusterfuck,” one member instructed Axios. “We’re screwed,” stated one other.
Johnson himself continues to aim to current an unbothered entrance. “It’s, in my opinion, an absurd notion that somebody would convey a vacate movement after we are merely right here attempting to do our jobs,” he said in a press conference on Tuesday.
“I’m not resigning,” Johnson declared.
