Marjorie Taylor Greene Chickens Out On Moving Against Mike Johnson
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Greene said she's not following through on last week's threat to force a vote against the House speaker because she's just being patient.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said last week that she would force the House of Representatives to hold a referendum on whether to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) this week, but so far she’s not doing it.
Greene emerged from a meeting with Johnson on Tuesday saying that “the ball is in Mike Johnson’s court” to act on a set of “suggestions” for running the House that she and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) presented to the speaker.
Asked about the timeline for Johnson to respond, Greene wouldn’t be specific.
“That’s up to Mike Johnson, and it can’t drag out,” she said. “These are things that have to be done.”
The suggestions — Greene and Massie have insisted that they aren’t demands — include only allowing votes on bills with support from a majority of Republicans, not providing further funding for Ukraine, and defunding the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald Trump.