Rap Marjorie Taylor Greene On Sunday, he claimed he plans to push for House Speaker Mike Johnson to be removed from office if he doesn’t resign following the chamber’s decision. Passage of the $95 billion package Includes foreign aid to Ukraine.
“Mike Johnson’s leadership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and let us move forward in a controlled process,” Greene, R-Ga., said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “If he doesn’t, he will be fired.”
He asked if she planned to move forward with him motion to vacate Johnson, Greene said, “will come regardless of what Mike Johnson decides to do.”
Reached for comment on the House’s shift in position on the impeachment motion, Johnson’s office referred NBC News to the speaker’s recent statements, including that Johnson did not walk around the Capitol on Saturday “saying he was concerned about a motion to impeach.”
“I have to do my job. We did. I did what I thought was the right thing to do here, and that’s to let the House do its thing.” he said journalists Saturday. “And like I said, you do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may, and that’s what I’m going to continue to do.”
Johnson is facing a backlash from the hard-right members of his party after he joined Democrats on Saturday to pass a critical foreign aid package that included $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine. Republicans include Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Thomas Massey of Kentucky signed on it A motion for discharge, authored by Greene, but not yet brought up as a privileged resolution.
If the proposal is brought up, three Republican votes in support could be enough to pass if all Democrats in the chamber join. But some House Democrats They indicated they planned to vote to save Johnson.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., a moderate who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, blasted Greene’s efforts to oust Johnson on Sunday in response to a critical question about the foreign aid package.
“What Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, and Paul Gosar are trying to accomplish by impeaching the Speaker of the House this October 7th minute will only embolden China, embolden Russia, [and] it will only embolden Iran,” Moskowitz said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Rep. Ro Khanna, a progressive from California who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that he would protect Johnson’s job if members of his far right threatened to oust him from office.
“I’m a progressive Democrat, and I think you’re going to have a few progressive Democrats who do. I disagree with Speaker Johnson on a lot of things and I’ve been very critical of him, but he did the right thing here,” Khanna said in an interview on ABC News’ “This Week,” referring to Johnson, who brought in the foreign aid package. to the floor. “And he deserves to keep his job until the end of that term.”
Notable is the shift from Democrats to the discharge proposal that led to the resignation of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last October and resulted in Johnson taking the gavel. Members made an effort to remove those who spoke at the previous convention, but no proposal made it to the floor for a vote.
Julie Tsirkin, Rebecca Kaplan and Kyle Stewart contributed.