Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she “will not tolerate” Speaker Mike Johnson, as she threatens to trigger his ouster should Congress pass Ukraine aid but reject conservative priorities like US border enforcement.
Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warned her congressional colleagues Tuesday she would move to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson should Congress pass military aid for Ukraine but hold off on approving conservative priorities like US border enforcement.
“I will not tolerate our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson serving the Democrats and the Biden administration and helping them achieve their policies that are destroying our country,” Greene (R-Ga.) wrote in a scathing “Dear Colleague” letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Post, explaining her threat to remove Johnson (R-La.) over an additional $60 billion in Ukraine funding.
“This has been a complete and total surrender to, if not complete and total lockstep with, the Democrats’ agenda that has angered our Republican base so much and given them very little reason to vote for a Republican House majority,” Greene added.
The rabble-rouser also accused Johnson of “throwing our own razor-thin majority into chaos by not serving his own GOP conference that elected him” — as her own threat to oust him hangs in the balance.
“I think all of my other Republican colleagues recognize this is a distraction from our mission,” the speaker said on Fox News March 31 of Greene’s motion to vacate the chair, which she filed March 22. “She’s very frustrated about, for example, the last appropriations bills.”
Greene filed her motion as the House was voting to approve $1.
