Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a letter to her colleagues outlining her criticism of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ahead of the House reconvening on April 9.
The months-long feud between Ms. Greene and Mr. Johnson reached a fever pitch late last month when the Republican from Georgia filed a move to vacate against the speaker. This letter is the latest chapter in their feud.
The action to ouster the speaker was taken at the same time conservatives were opposing a $1.2 trillion spending plan in the House that would have prevented a partial government shutdown.
Ms. Greene asserted that the speaker is not serving the GOP conference properly:
“I will not tolerate our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson serving the Democrats and the Biden administration and helping them achieve their policies that are destroying our country,” Ms. Greene said. “He is throwing our own razor-thin majority into chaos by not serving his own GOP conference that elected him.
“With so much at stake for our future and the future of our children, I will not tolerate this type of Republican ‘leadership,’” she added. “This has been a complete and total surrender to, if not complete and total lockstep with, the Democrats’ agenda that has angered our Republican base so much and given them very little reason to vote for a Republican House majority.”
Ms. Greene cited what she believes to be Mr. Johnson’s failure to adhere to his “key priorities” when running for the speakership in October. The priorities were to restore trust, advance a comprehensive policy agenda, promote individual members, engage members, effectively message, build and utilize external coalitions, and develop and grow the GOP majority.
She asserted that he had not followed through: “Mike Johnson has unfortunately not lived up to a single one of his self-imposed tenets,” Ms. Greene wrote.
Ms. Greene recently wrote that Congress should deal with the southern border crisis before giving aid to Kyiv, pointing out that Mr. Johnson voted against Ukraine funding before becoming speaker of the House.
“The last time we voted on Ukraine funding was September 28, 2023, and the majority of Republicans voted against giving Ukraine $300 million by 117-101 votes. Mike Johnson was one of the NO votes,” Ms. Greene said.
‘Rules? What Rules?’
In her criticism of Johnson’s management of the fiscal 2024 government funding process, which concluded late last month, she slammed his decision to give members less than 72 hours to review the second minibus, his use of two-step continuing resolutions to make the appropriations process “even more convoluted,” and his failure to secure more GOP wins in the two packages.“This was really a two-part omnibus, split into two minibuses, crammed down our throats, passed under suspension of the rules, breaking the 72-hour rule, giving us one day to read over a thousand pages, and tying our hands behind our backs by not allowing us to make any amendments.
“Rules? What rules? Remember the precious rules?” Ms. Greene said. “Apparently, they no longer matter to Mike Johnson, even though he promised to abide by them and enforce them.”
“Mike Johnson worked with Chuck Schumer rather than with us, and gave Joe Biden and the Democrats everything they wanted—no different from how a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries would have done.”
Mr. Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to The Epoch Times’s request for comment.
