Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mike Johnson In Talks Over Effort To Topple House Speaker

A long-awaited meeting between the two lawmakers happened Monday ― and will lead to another meeting Tuesday.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met in person Monday to discuss her threat to call a vote on ousting him from the speaker’s chair.

But the more than two-hour-long confab only led to an agreement to meet again Tuesday, leaving the question still open of whether Johnson, who just took the speaker’s gavel in October, is in danger of losing his job.

“We just had a very long discussion with the speaker. We’re going to be meeting again tomorrow, based on the discussions that we had, so we really don’t have any news to report at this time,” Greene told reporters afterward, flanked by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has called on Johnson to resign.

Johnson also gave no specifics of what he and Greene had talked about in the long-awaited meeting, but he again emphasized that with only one vote to lose in straight party-line votes on the House floor, Republicans cannot be expected to win the big policy fights Greene and Massie appear focused on.

“It makes it very difficult for us, using my football metaphor as I often do, to throw touchdown passes on every play. Very difficult,” he said. “It’s three yards and a cloud of dust, we used to say.”