Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing increasing opposition for filing a motion to oust Mike Johnson from the speakership, which she filed because of anger about the government funding bill.
During Fox News’s “Outnumbered,” co-hosts Kayleigh McEnany and Emily Compagno called the move selfish and a waste of time.
“I feel we are seeing yet another tantrum by a tiny fraction of that conference that is disrupting the entire machine that we just exhaustively waited for to get back on track,” Compagno said.
“And here we are again watching someone steal the time, steal the audio, steal the limelight, steal the attention.”
Compagno added:
“She says we should have our attention on the illegals streaming across the border, on a million other things, no, our attention was on you while you gave a presser. I am sick and tired of it as a Republican, as an American citizen.”
“I want them to get to work. I love Speaker Johnson, who would be better than him MTG? What is your plan? And I don’t want my legislature taking two days up to vote for that, to figure everything out, to look incompetent during a presidential election year.”
“This is the last thing I want to be subjected with, this is, it’s frankly — at a minimum it’s disappointing.”
McEnany chimed in argueng the move as taking away from the important issues of the 2024 presidential election.
“There’s a great irony here Carly, as I’m listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene, I hear her say that there’s a video that everyone is focused on — that video is of illegal immigrants rushing the border. It is a video about six minutes ago we were set to play,” McEnany said.
“It is a video that you are not seeing right now because instead we are talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
“It raises this question, she didn’t make this live so nothing happens for two weeks, is this a fundraising exercise so you can go back to the district for two weeks and fundraise off of it? What’s the motive here? You not in her head, but what’s the motive?” McEnany asked.
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After filing the motion, Greene said:
“Short or getting the vote is necessary how can you find someone to succeed Mike Johnson who can get the votes and keep the conference together and not plunge the chamber into chaos? It because the country is in crisis.”
“We have a border invasion happening every single day. People under 30 years old has lost hope for their future. The younger generations cannot afford to buy homes, and inflation is running rampant.”
“Our country is in crisis and we need real leaders who know how to fight and know how to walk into the ring and do not get rolled by the deep state, or by the Democrats do not get rolled into doing whatever it takes to maintain that power and position.”
“We need to speak of the house that actually represents the people. This is not Washington, D.C., this is the people’s house. Warning sign but you bottom line wants Johnson out.”
“Motion to vacate if we didn’t need a new speaker. I have respect for him as a person but he is not doing the job – and the proof is in the vote count today. He passed a budget that should have not been brought to the floor and it was passed with the Democrats and without the majority,” she added.
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