CV NEWS FEED // Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA, penned a lengthy letter to her fellow Republican members of Congress railing against House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, whom she filed a motion to oust last month.
“Before we left for Easter break, I filed a motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson after he passed the second minibus,” Greene wrote in the letter.
The Republican congresswoman described that the spending bill “broke our conference rules and the promises we made to our voters.”
“We elected Mike Johnson in late October after three-and-a-half difficult weeks trying to decide on a new Speaker of the House,” she described. “Mike Johnson sent us all a letter making his promises to us as to what type of Speaker he would be and outlining his plans going forward.”
“Mike Johnson has unfortunately not lived up to a single one of his self-imposed tenets,” Greene continued:
Allowing us one day, rather than 72 hours, to review a 1000-plus page bill to which no amendments could be offered was not “ensuring total transparency, open processes, and regular order.” Relying on majority Democrat support to pass a two-part omnibus was not “advancing a policy agenda supported by Conference consensus.”
“As a matter of fact, there is little daylight between Nancy Pelosi’s omnibus in the 117th Congress and Mike Johnson’s omnibus in the 118th Congress, in spite of Americans giving Republicans the majority in order to stop the Democrats’ ‘America Last’ destructive agenda,” Greene went on:
Some people are claiming weak excuses like, “this is just how you have to govern in a divided government.” However, in the 1990s, Republicans won the House under Democrat President Bill Clinton and a Democrat-controlled Senate. Under Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Republican-controlled House fought for their agenda and was able to balance the budget, get conservative wins, and do the job that Republican voters sent them to do. This led to actually paying down the debt over several years by hundreds of billions of dollars.
“Even with our razor-thin Republican majority, we could have at least secured the border, with it being the number one issue in the country and being the issue that is causing Biden to lose in poll after poll,” she wrote, later in the letter.
“We could have also taken out funding for abortion and the trans agenda on kids if our own Speaker would have allowed us to offer amendments,” Greene added. “We could have achieved other worthy victories if we had only put up a fight against Democrats.”
“Instead, Mike Johnson worked with [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer [D-NY] rather than with us, and gave Joe Biden and the Democrats everything they wanted—no different from how a Speaker [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY] would have done,” the lawmaker alleged.
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“With so much at stake for our future and the future of our children, I will not tolerate this type of Republican ‘leadership,’” Greene concluded:
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.
And if these actions by the leader of our conference continue, then we are not a Republican party—we are a Uniparty that is hell-bent on remaining on the path of self-inflicted destruction. I will neither support nor take part in any of that, and neither will the people we represent.
Shortly after Greene released her letter, her former Republican House colleague rebuked her effort, branding her “Moscow Marjorie.”
“My experience with Marjorie is, people have talked to her about not filing articles of impeachment on President Biden before he was sworn into office, on not filing articles of impeachment that were groundless made on other individuals in the Biden administration,” former Rep. Ken Buck, R-CO, said during a Monday CNN interview.
“And [Greene] was never moved by that,” Buck indicated. “She was always focused on her social media account.”
“And Moscow Marjorie is focused now on this Ukraine issue and getting her talking points from the Kremlin and making sure that she is popular and she is getting a lot of coverage,” the former congressman added.
Buck resigned from office on March 22 – coincidentally the same day Greene filed her “motion to vacate” against Johnson.
The lawmaker from Colorado announced his resignation ten days earlier after previously stating that he was not running for reelection and also blasted his House colleagues and their conduct.
“A lot of this is personal. That’s the problem,” he told CNN on March 12. “Instead of having decorum — instead of acting in a professional manner — this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense.”
“It is the worst year of the nine years and three months that I’ve been in Congress and having talked to former members, it’s the worst year in 40, 50 years to be in Congress,” Buck added during the same interview. “But I’m leaving because I think there’s a job to do out there.”
CatholicVote Director of Governmental Affairs Tom McClusky said that Buck’s “action of resigning immediately put his own wants before the principles he espouses and put the Republican majority in the House in jeopardy, exacerbating the very problem he was ranting about.”
Buck’s resignation reduced the already-slim Republican House majority to 218-213 – among the narrowest House majorities in the chamber’s history.
The majority is expected to further shrink to 217-213 with Rep. Mike Gallagher’s, R-WI, impending retirement, effective later this month.
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