Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams Speaker Mike Johnson, House GOP: ‘We Should Have a Major Majority, a Supermajority!’
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) ran uncontested in his bid to remain the Republican leader in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
But that didn’t stop Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from spouting off against him in a conversation with CNN’s Manu Raju during which she blamed the speaker and her Republican colleagues for the fact that they don’t have a “supermajority.”
“We should have a major majority, a supermajority! But we don’t. And we don’t have that, I think was based on the performance of this Congress. This Congress has had a lot of failures, in the eyes of our voters and the eyes of the American people,” began Greene. “The American people gave a mandate last Tuesday of the types of policies they want, the agenda that they want, and that’s President Trump’s policies that he laid out on the campaign.”
“Is Speaker Johnson to blame for that?” asked Raju.
“Yes, his leadership, unfortunately. He passed-, fully passed the Biden-Harris agenda,” she replied.
“Johnson told me yesterday he’s not concerned about the votes in the House in January, he thinks he’ll ultimately get there. He believes Donald Trump will help him get there,” reported Raju after cutting out of his interview with Greene.
“But just shows you again, a razor-thin House Republican majority like they had at the beginning of this Congress and throughout this Congress, which has given them fits all along, led to the ouster, of course, of Kevin McCarthy the last speaker of the House. So the question will be, will those detractors like Marjorie Taylor Greene fall in line or will they complicate the Republican agenda and getting a new speaker in January,” he concluded.
Trump has repeatedly expressed his confidence in and support for Johnson, including during a meeting with the House GOP on Wednesday.
Watch above via CNN.