Mike Johnson Responds to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Threat to Try to Oust Him as Speaker: ‘I’m Not Worried About That’
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he is not concerned about comments from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who said she will move to oust him from his position if he supports aid to Ukraine.
Johnson has been in talks with Senate Democrats and the White House about funding Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia, U.S. border security, and the federal government in general.
Greene told Fox News on Sunday that if Johnson moves forward with funding for Ukraine, she will file a motion to vacate the chair. That would trigger a vote of the full House on whether to remove the speaker. Johnson, who has had the position since October, ascended to the post after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was booted.
“I told Speaker Johnson if he made that deal in exchange for $60 billion for Ukraine, I would vacate the chair,” she said. “And I still stand by those words.”
Johnson appeared on Wednesday’s edition of The Source on CNN, where host Kaitlan Collins asked him about Greene’s comments.
“Are you worried about threats to your job like that?” she asked.
“No, I have a job to do,” he responded “We all have to do our jobs. Marjorie Taylor Greene is very upset about the lack of oversight over the funding and over the lack of an articulation of a plan, as am I. All of us–”
“But she doesn’t care about a plan,” Collins interrupted. “She doesn’t want any Ukraine funding, period, no matter what the White House says the plan is.”
“I understand,” Johnson said. “I’ve talked with her about it personally at great length and she’s made her position very clear. We have to do our job. We have to continue to ensure that we’re covering all these bases and we’ll see how this all shakes out. I’m not worried about that. I got a job to do here. And we have to make sure we get the answers that we demanded.”
Earlier in the evening, Johnson was on Fox News, where host Laura Ingraham said of his negotiations with Democrats, “You’re just giving them the fig leaf of bipartisanship.”
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