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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., detailed her reasoning behind filing a motion to vacate Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday.
Greene appeared on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” to discuss her decision to file a motion to vacate against Johnson last week after the House passed an omnibus bill. Greene told Fox host Maria Bartiromo that Johnson had not only broken the “72-hour rule,” which gives Congress 72 hours to read the legislation they would be voting on, but that the bill was a Democrat’s “wish list.”
“This week, Speaker Johnson, who has barely been a speaker for six months, led us to a complete catastrophe,” Greene stated. “He passed a giant omnibus bill—the second part of it—this week on Friday, after breaking the 72-hour rule. He only gave Republicans a day to read 1,012 pages and did not allow us to pass amendments to make any changes to this bill, which Chuck Schumer had stuffed full of Democrat wish lists and kept the Biden catastrophe border policies going.”
“This comes after the tragic death of Laken Riley. This comes after Americans have been watching all the videos showing military-age, male illegal aliens rushing the Texas border, running over Texas National Guard and border patrol. Americans are sick and tired of failure in the House of Representatives,” Greene continued.
Greene continued to state that the House Republicans cannot have a Speaker willing to “do the bidding of Chuck Schumer” before Bartiromo questioned the Georgia representative on details of how the bill avoided protecting the border.
Greene noted that the bill did not include Republican measures such as HR2 and the Laken Riley Act and instead allegedly opted to fund “full term abortion clinics” and “trans woke policies” targeting children.
“Speaker Johnson’s one chance to truly secure the border is with the power of the purse, and that’s in these funding bills,” Greene stated.
“If Speaker Johnson really wanted to secure the border like he promised all of us, he wouldn’t promise the American people that he would have told Chuck Schumer we will not pass any government funding bills until our border and funding bills have the HR2 in it or the Laken Riley Act, or at least some measures within them,” she continued.
House Republicans have started to become concerned over their slim majority within the House as fellow members continue to either step away from politics or decide not the run again for their position.
While the GOP originally only held a nine-member lead in the House following the 2022 elections, Republicans are now just one seat away from losing their power, according to Business Insider.