Last Updated on March 22, 2024
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to vacate the chair of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson after he and 100 of his fellow Republicans joined with Democrats to suspend the House Rules to pass a last-minute bill funding the Biden Regime. The legislation fails to secure America’s borders while funding transgenderism, abortion, and the DOJ persecutions of American citizens.
Ironically, Rep. Mike Johnson only became Speaker of the House after his predecessor, now-former member of Congress Kevin McCarthy, became the first speaker in American history to be tossed from his chair by way of a motion to vacate – the Jeffersonian parliamentary procedure allowing for a single member of Congress to initiate the removal process, should a majority of members back the effort.
Now, Johnson faces the distinct possibility of joining McCarthy in the garbage pail of American political history, as Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair after Johnson and 100 other Republicans crossed the aisle to help Democrats continue funding the federal government.
While Republicans still hold a thin majority in the House, because of a wave of resignations from establishment figures, which has brought the majority down to a razor’s edge, Democrats have effectively seized control of the legislative agenda, because they only need to convince a handful of Republicans to work with them in order to do it – as in the case of the spending bill vote, in which a majority of Republicans voted AGAINST the measure.
“This is a complete betrayal of Republican voters across the country,” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told OAN after filing the motion to vacate.
“I entered the motion to vacate this morning after Mike Johnson brought part 2 of an omnibus to the floor this morning and forced all of us to vote on a bill that would fund abortion up until full term, doesn’t do anything to secure our border – and this comes after people are seeing this video that’s horrifying to every single American where there’s a large group of military-age men, illegals, rushing the border, running over Border Patrol, running over the National Guard.”
“Speaker Johnson totally gave up every ounce of authority he had as House Speaker to use this funding of the government to secure the border for the American People, and it is way past time [to file the motion],” Greene went on to say, before detailing the various House and GOP Conference rules broken by Johnson is rushing the Democrat legislation through Congress.
“He’s basically handed over control to Chuck Schumer,” said Greene.
Watch the Full Video Below:Â
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1771270516331905155
