Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, doubled-down on her efforts to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday amid criticism that her motion is “creating drama” within the Republican Party.Far-right House Republicans, including Greene, had been increasingly critical of Johnson’s effort to push a series of foreign aid bills to the chamber’s floor on Saturday, where lawmakers passed measures to provide supplemental funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Some GOP lawmakers have said that additional funding should not be passed unless Congress takes action to curb illegal migration along the U.S.-Mexico border.Appearing on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo, Greene defended her motion to vacate that she filed against Johnson last month. The motion has been cosponsored by Republican Representatives Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar, but it was unprivileged, meaning it did not automatically trigger a House vote.Bartiromo asked the congresswoman on Sunday why she chose to not refile the motion to vacate to bring a House vote after the foreign aid bills passed on Saturday, to which Greene responded, “I’ve been responsible with this the entire time.”
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, speaks to reporters on April 18. Greene doubled-down on her efforts to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday amid criticism that her motion is “creating drama” within…
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, speaks to reporters on April 18. Greene doubled-down on her efforts to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday amid criticism that her motion is “creating drama” within the Republican Party.
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“I support our majority and I support having the majority in 2025,” Greene said. “But I’m a representative of the people…The people are fed up.”Bartiromo then prompted Greene for her reaction to members of both sides of the aisle who have accused her of making the Republican Party “look like it’s disrupted” ahead of the November general election, where former President Donald Trump is likely set to challenge President Joe Biden for a second term in 2020 election rematch.”You know, everybody—a lot of people are criticizing you,” Bartiromo said. “And the reason that they are is because they’re saying that you’re creating drama during this election year.”Greene said that “those that are calling this drama are the very people that are responsible for the drama that the American people are having to live through every single day.”She added: “Those on the left, those on the right, the uni-party that’s in control of our government, are the ones that have inflicted the American people with nearly $35 trillion in debt, ripped their border wide open and refuse—speaker Johnson refuses to use his powers as speaker in the House to do any type of negotiating to secure the southern border and stop the madness in our country.”I don’t apologize for standing firm in my belief, in my faith and my absolute allegiance to the United States of America. As a matter of fact, I am cemented in this, and I will fight harder for our country. The Republican Party is the party that needs to change.”Newsweek reached out to Johnson’s office for comment Sunday afternoon via email.
Greene first filed her motion to vacate against Johnson after he worked across the aisle to get a $1.2 trillion package passed in late March, which narrowly avoided a partial government shutdown. At the time, the congresswoman said her motion was a “warning” to Johnson.In addition to the foreign aid packages, Johnson also put forth a bill on Saturday that would have boosted security along the southern border, a rehash of the immigration bill passed by the House last May, H.R. 2, that was blocked by Democrats in the Senate.The new border measure failed to garner a two-thirds majority to pass in the House, however, earning a 215-199 vote. All “no” votes came from House Democrats, while nine Democrats and eight Republicans abstained from voting.Representative Bob Good, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and Virginia Republican, told reporters prior to Saturday’s vote that the measure was “a joke,” adding, “That’s pretend. That’s theater. That’s noise.”Greene also criticized the bill last week as “a theatrics” and a “shiny object.””It’s the shiny object for Republicans that are saying we got to do something for the border,” she told reporters.
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