Johnson’s Days As Speaker Are Numbered – One America News Network

April 29, 2024 Sophia Flores US 0

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 11: (L-R) Rep. Daniel Meuser (R-PA), U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speak to one another prior to an address by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the U.S. Capitol on April 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kishida is scheduled to return to the White House to participate in a trilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to discuss Beijing’s provocations in the Indo-Pacific region and security in the South China Sea. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) — U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speak to one another prior to an address by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the U.S. Capitol on April 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

OAN’s Sani Unutoa
3:23 PM – Monday, April 29, 2024

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says Representative Mike Johnson’s days as speaker are numbered.

On Sunday, days after Biden signed the $95-billion foreign aid package, she made the comment on X (Twitter).

The measure includes more funding for Ukraine, as well as for Israel and Taiwan.

Permanent funding for Ukraine is exactly what they want and Mike Johnson will give it to them.

Peace is not an option for them because it doesn’t fit the government appropriations war business and economic model, which is vile and disgusting.

They’re plan is keep funding the… https://t.co/7K9mCDhDhe

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 28, 2024

Greene (R-Ga.) strongly opposes funding Ukraine’s war with Russia. She filed a motion to remove Johnson (R-La.) as speaker last month.

Greene said Johnson will do whatever President Biden and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) want in order to keep the speaker’s gavel.

She added that Johnson sold out Republican voters, reiterating her comments she made after the House approved the foreign aid package.

“This is a sellout of America today,” she said. “When we had members of Congress in there waving the Ukrainian flag on the United States House of Representatives for, while we’re doing nothing to secure our border, I think every American in this country should be furious.”

Greene’s motion to vacate Johnson is supported by Representatives Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz). It has yet to face a vote.

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