Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) shouldn’t be ruling out voting for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to remain within the place, regardless of beforehand making a transfer to oust him.
Requested Tuesday exterior the Capitol whether or not she would help Johnson in Wednesday’s inside management elections and on the Home flooring, Greene mentioned: “Well, I think he’s the only one running for Speaker, so I don’t understand everybody asking this question.”
Greene had sharply criticized Johnson for ushering by a $61 billion support bundle for Ukraine and for reauthorizing warrantless international spying powers. In Might, she led a transfer to attempt to power a vote to oust Johnson from his place — however Home Democrats helped Republicans kill the hassle by voting to desk the matter.
However for Greene — a staunch supporter of President-Elect Trump — the approaching Republican trifecta with management of the Home, Senate, and White Home seems to have modified her calculus.
“The American people overwhelmingly voted for President Trump’s agenda, not anyone else’s agenda, President Trump’s agenda, MAGA agenda, America First agenda. And I think that’s a mandate from the American people,” Greene mentioned. “So, I think whoever’s in charge here in the House, their job is to pass President Trump’s agenda.”
The Hill pressed Greene on her feedback, noting that it seems like she shouldn’t be ruling out voting for Johnson on the Home flooring regardless of being essential of him.
“What I’ve been critical of is passing the Biden Harris agenda in the house that’s funding, fully funding, an agenda that [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer [D-N.Y.] loved so much he passed it right through the Senate, reauthorizing FISA and warrantless spying on Americans and giving $60 billion to Ukraine,” Greene mentioned. “But I really don’t think that’ll happen under President Trump. I’m sure he will never allow that, and neither will the American people.”
Johnson, like Greene, additionally has an excellent relationship with Trump. He’s pitching the significance of continuity of management as Republicans plot an formidable legislative agenda beneath Trump, with financial and tax points taking the forefront.
Different hardline conservatives within the Home GOP are planning to appoint a last-minute various challenger to Speaker Johnson in management elections on Wednesday, sources inform The Hill, however that they haven’t determined who that nominee can be.
Whereas Johnson is anticipated to simply win the interior nomination, the problem may foreshadow difficulties for Johnson in securing the gavel on the Home flooring on Jan. 3, when Johnson will want near-unanimity within the slim GOP majority.
Greene, although, dismissed the prospect of a problem.
“I have seen no serious effort, have you? Do you know of one? I know I haven’t gotten a single phone call,” Greene mentioned. “These questions are meant to divide Republicans for tomorrow on the vote. And I’m not interested in that … I support President Trump unapologetically, and I’ll be a House member working very hard to get his agenda passed.”
