Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., stood behind her movement to oust Speaker Mike Johnson after the Republican-led Home pushed by a large $1.2 trillion bipartisan federal funding bundle to avert a authorities shutdown final week.
“Republicans are fed up with it. Republican voters want fighters in the House of Representatives to fight like President Trump, and that is exactly what I’m doing,” she instructed Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
“I will force change. I’m not bringing chaos. I’m forcing change.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to reporters exterior of the U.S. Capitol Constructing throughout a vote on laws pertaining to TikTok on March 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
Home conservatives like Greene stay annoyed by the bundle’s passage and argue it extends insurance policies outlined by the beforehand Democratic-controlled Congress with sky-high spending and a scarcity of Republican coverage riders.
It is proof of the social gathering’s ongoing political civil conflict that ousted former California Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker final October, an effort spearheaded by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Now McCarthy’s successor is within the sizzling seat amongst some members of his social gathering.
“Speaker Johnson, who has barely been a speaker for six months, led us to a complete catastrophe. He passed a giant omnibus bill, the second part of it, this week on Friday, after breaking the 72-hour rule, only giving Republicans a day to read 1,012 pages and not allowing us to pass amendments to make any changes to this bill, which Chuck Schumer had stuffed full of [the] Democrat wishlist and [kept] the Biden catastrophe border policies going,” Greene mentioned.
HOUSE PASSES $460 BILLION GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL BLASTED BY GOP HARDLINERS
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson (R-LA) talks to reporters throughout a information convention on the U.S. Capitol Guests Middle on February 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
“Americans are sick and tired of failure in the House of Representatives,” she continued. “We are barely hanging on to our Republic, a nation with over $34 trillion in debt, and we cannot have a Republican Speaker of the House that is willing to do the bidding of Chuck Schumer, handing over the gavel to him and letting him pass the Schumer House bill on the floor and not allowing any of us Republicans to do our jobs.”
Responding to the movement, Johnson’s workplace instructed Fox News Digital in a press release, “Speaker Johnson always listens to the concerns of members, but is focused on governing. He will continue to push conservative legislation that secures our border, strengthens our national defense, and demonstrates how we’ll grow our majority.”
On the forefront of Republicans’ considerations is the border disaster, introduced into the highlight most notably by the current dying of Augusta College nursing scholar Laken Riley, who was murdered by an unlawful immigrant on the College of Georgia campus in Athens, Georgia final month.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE FILES MOTION TO OUST SPEAKER JOHNSON
An evening view of The Capitol constructing dome in Washigton DC on October 20, 2022. Congress handed the large federal funding bundle that was signed by President Biden on Saturday. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto by way of Getty Pictures)
Recent footage of migrants speeding throughout the southern border has solely exacerbated considerations as effectively.
Greene, in the meantime, mentioned the large invoice signed by President Biden on Saturday does nothing to safe the border and “does everything to keep the Biden administration’s horrible border invasion, the deadly daily invasion going every single day.”
“The House Republicans have passed incredible border security bills like H.R. 2 and the Laken Riley Act. Speaker Johnson’s one chance to truly secure the border is with the power of the purse, and that’s in these funding bills. If Speaker Johnson really wanted to secure the border like he promised all of us he would… then he would have told Chuck Schumer, ‘We will not pass any government funding bills until [they] have the H.R. 2 in them, or the Laken Riley Act, or at least some measures within them,’ but he didn’t. He completely failed in that,” she added.
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Fox Information’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
