'Complete catastrophe': Marjorie Taylor Greene melts down attacking Mike Johnson
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after House Republicans passed a bipartisan government funding bill.
"Republicans and the House of Representatives, where we hold on to a razor-thin majority," Greene told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "But yet this week, Speaker Johnson, who has barely been a speaker for six months, led us to a complete catastrophe."
Greene blasted the bill passed to fund the government before excoriating Johnson for allowing Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) to retire without leaving time for a special election to replace him.
"You're right, Maria, and those people stepping down early and leaving are the ones that are leaving us at risk of the Democrats controlling the majority, not me," Greene said.
"I filed this motion to vacate, but I haven't called it to the floor," she continued. "This is like issuing a pink slip and giving our conference a notice saying that we have got to find a new speaker."
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Greene said that finding a new speaker "may take months, and it may not even happen until next Congress, but Speaker Johnson cannot remain a speaker of the House."
"Speaker Johnson has also failed our majority because he is allowing Mike Gallagher to leave Congress after the deadline date, where his district cannot hold a special election and elect a new representative for the rest of this entire Congress," she ranted.
"Mike Gallagher betrayed all of us, and Speaker Johnson, as the one who's responsible for our majority, praised Mike Gallagher on Friday after he announced his departure, saying that he's great and praising him and thanking him for his service in Congress," Greene added.
"Speaker Johnson should be forcing Mike Gallagher to leave early so that his district can hold a special election, and any strong Republican speaker of the House would expel a member for leaving our razor-thin majority in such a delicate, delicate state. We cannot allow this."
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