House Speaker Mike Johnson’s spin on rapport with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene clashed with the Georgia congresswoman’s own take on the leader dubbed the “Democrat speaker.”
The legislature’s recess for Easter didn’t stand in the way of scoring political points as conservative members of the House Republican Conference remained at odds with the establishment seemingly steering victories toward President Joe Biden’s favor.
Following an appearance on “Sunday Night in America” where Johnson had told Fox News host Trey Gowdy he considered Greene’s filed motion to vacate a “distraction from our mission” and that they’d made plans “to talk early next week,” she shared her side of the story with the Daily Mail.
“Someone just told me that he had said he had talked to me over the break but we had very little communication,” the Georgia lawmaker had said suggesting a different framing for the exchange.
“He had called on Thursday night before Good Friday and left a message. Basically, just saying how tired he was and how he was traveling through states fundraising and mainly that he was really wanting to talk to me,” she continued. “And so when I got that message, I just texted him back. You know, I don’t want to talk to someone that’s so tired and complaining nonstop.”
Presenting herself as the power player, Greene was quoted as saying “Get some rest and we’ll talk next week.”
Johnson had worked to downplay the gift to the leftist agenda that the $1.2 trillion omnibus spending package was as he had told Gowdy, “these are not the perfect pieces of legislation that you and I and Marjorie would draft if we had the ability to do it differently. But with the smallest margin in U.S. history, we’re sometimes going to get legislation that we don’t like, and the Democrats know that when we don’t all stand together with our razor-thin majority, then they have a better negotiation position, and that’s why we got some of the things we didn’t like.”
Speaker Johnson details text exchange with MTG over motion to vacate https://t.co/InQFuEECqS via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) April 1, 2024
“He cannot be Speaker of the House. He just can’t be, I won’t vote for him,” Greene was reported as saying. “Many other Republican members are saying the same thing. He’s not our speaker. He’s the Democrat speaker.”
“I want the majority next [Congress]. I support the majority and I’m not going to be irresponsible with it. The more Mike Johnson does to serve the Biden administration and to go against the will of the American people is he’s proving me right without me having to do anything,” she added.
Details of the spending package that had less than half of the GOP siding with Johnson for passage with a vast majority of Democrats had included nearly $400 million toward border security in the Middle East, $200 million toward a new FBI headquarters, funding for the World Health Organization and toward transgenderism while leaving American citizens vulnerable to whatever bad actors chose to smuggle across the open border.
Greene raised concern about the Department of Justice funding with the Mail as she called them out for “literally wanting to put Trump in jail for the rest of his life,” where he would “die in jail if the Department of Justice had their way. Mike Johnson? Full funding.”
She also took to social media since Easter to further slam Johnson for having “completely surrendered all power we had in the House to stop horrendous crimes like child rape by illegals when he fully funded Biden’s deadly open border without a fight,” all while making Ukraine his priority when Congress resumed.
“If Speaker Johnson gives another $60 billion to the defense of Ukraine’s border after he FULLY FUNDED Biden’s deadly open border, the cruel joke would be on the American people. And it won’t be April Fools,” wrote Greene.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing.
Speaker Johnson completely surrendered all power we had in the House to stop horrendous crimes like child rape by illegals when he fully funded Biden’s deadly open border without a fight. https://t.co/dy9F3kvavg
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 1, 2024
If Speaker Johnson gives another $60 billion to the defense of Ukraine’s border after he FULLY FUNDED Biden’s deadly open border, the cruel joke would be on the American people.
And it won’t be April Fools.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 1, 2024
Well said, thank you.
And what do we have to expect going forward when he brings $60 billion for Ukraine next week, FISA after that, and the next government funding deadline of September 30th?
Johnson is actually helping the Democrats’ mission, not ours. https://t.co/S6BujfTLWa
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 2, 2024
The congresswoman even went as far as to praise bipartisan efforts under the leadership of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who worked with then-President Bill Clinton to pass “a balanced budget and they fought so hard to make it happen,” while Johnson sends “a message to Republican voters that they don’t have anything to vote for in a future Republican party without Trump.”
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