Marjorie Taylor Greene is demanding House Speaker Mike Johnson resign or be removed over $95B foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., R-Ga., has come to the defense of House Speaker Mike Johnson, the former president of Donald Trump, who wants to remove the Louisiana Republican from the leadership position.
“Well, look, we have a majority of one, okay?” Trump told radio host John Fredericks on Monday. “He can go and do whatever he wants to do. I think he’s a very nice guy. You know, he stood up very strongly with me when I said NATO has to pay … it’s a tough situation when you have it. I think he’s a very nice guy and again we’re a big We have elections.
Fredericks asked the presumptive GOP nominee, who spent Monday in a Manhattan courtroom hearing opening statements from his defense and prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money criminal trial, how he would characterize “this split with MAGA and Mike Johnson.”
Trump praised Johnson as part of a package that would see Ukraine receive more than $9 billion in financial aid in the form of “forgivable loans.”
“We’ve got to elect some people in Congress, a lot more than we have right now,” Trump continued. “We’ve got to elect some good senators. Get rid of some of the ones we’ve got now, like Romney and others. And we’ve got to have a great day, and we’ve got to win the presidency. If we don’t win the presidency, I’m telling you, I think we can finish our country… we’re in total decline.” country.”
Green, a staunch Trump ally, has called for Johnson to resign after the House passes a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes about $61 billion for Ukraine, or she will remove him as speaker.
“Mike Johnson’s leadership is over. He should do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process,” she told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “If he doesn’t, he’ll be fired.”
The political climate has changed since House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., though Johnson drew ire from House conservatives for working across the aisle to strike deals with President Biden on federal spending, government spying, and, most recently, Ukraine. The speaker was removed from the post last October with similar irritations.
Closer to the November election, Republicans maintained a slim majority and were ousted from the lower chamber of Congress after McCarthy was ousted as speaker and resigned from the House. Reps. Thomas Massey, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., last week supported Green’s motion to oust Johnson as speaker.
But the head of the House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., told The Hill that he opposes Johnson being booted from the top job.
“My judgment and assessment is that this is not the time to do that,” Good reportedly said.