Representative Greene Fed Up with Turmoil, Refuses to Remove Speaker

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is pushing back against Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, the policy chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, after he would not rule out introducing a motion to vacate against House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

The issue is over the $1.59 trillion spending agreement reached this weekend, saying she’s “sick of the chaos” being seen on Capitol Hill.

“And I would say that Chip Roy haphazardly throwing in a motion to vacate is probably about the dumbest thing that could happen because I think the last motion to vacate was pretty stupid and has thrown our conference into utter chaos,” Greene told reporters Tuesday, referring to the motion to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., last fall, reports The Hill.

That motion led to McCarthy being ousted and the lengthy process to pick Johnson as his replacement.

Several other House Freedom Caucus members strongly oppose the spending deal, calling it a “total failure” and accusing Johnson of making the same mistakes as McCarthy when dealing with President Joe Biden and Democrats.

Roy told CNN Monday night that he is not happy that Johnson reached a spending deal with Democrat leaders, and would not rule out supporting a motion to oust Johnson, but also said it’s “not the road I prefer.

“I didn’t prefer to go down that road with Speaker McCarthy. We need to figure out how to get this all done together. But it isn’t good, and there’s a lot of my colleagues who are pretty frustrated about it, so we’ll see what happens this week.”

Greene, who also opposes the spending bill, further commented Tuesday that “we haven’t passed any more appropriation bills since they threw out Kevin McCarthy,” but “we have expelled a Republican member of Congress and we’re reducing our numbers.”

The congresswoman added that she’s “sick of the chaos,” and “came here to be serious about solving problems, not to produce clickbait.”