Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to be moving forward with her motion to oust Speaker Johnson, sending a scathing letter to her colleagues today on the reasons why he needs to go.
Here’s the writeup from DC Examiner on her letter. The full letter is also below:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made her strongest threat yet against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after sending a letter to her Republican colleagues making a direct pitch as to why he should be removed from the top leadership position.
In a scathing five-page Dear Colleague letter sent to lawmakers on Tuesday, Greene outlined several instances in which she said Johnson has violated the promises he made when he was first elected to lead the conference. Although Greene did not explicitly say she would move forward with the process to oust Johnson, the letter marks a clear escalation that underscores the strongest threat the speaker has faced since being elevated to the position nearly six months ago.
“Mike Johnson has unfortunately not lived up to a single one of his self-imposed tenets,” Greene wrote in the letter, which was obtained by the Washington Examiner. “Rules? What rules? Remember the precious rules? Apparently, they no longer matter to Mike Johnson, even though he promised to abide by them and enforce them.”
Greene cited several promises she said Johnson made when first elected speaker, including a vow to ensure regular order by allowing 72 hours to review bill text and single-subject appropriations bills. Greene then pointed to the two spending packages passed by Congress last month that combined all 12 spending bills into two pieces of legislation, which were both passed under a suspension of rules.
“That is why 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,” Greene wrote. “He is throwing our own razor-thin majority into chaos by not serving his own GOP conference that elected him.”
She accused Johnson of “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.”
Johnson, for his part, has pushed back on the threat of a motion to vacate, telling Fox News last week he planned to speak with Greene before the House reconvened. It’s not clear when the two plan to meet, and CNN reported the planned meeting for Friday never happened. The Washington Examiner contacted a spokesperson for Johnson regarding the matter.
You can read Greene’s full 5-page letter below: