Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) condemned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Republicans joining her effort to remove Mike Johnson (R-La.) as speaker.
“She needs her time in the spotlight, you know, and it’s been a while, and I think it’s one last ditch effort to get attention, is what she’s looking for,” Crenshaw told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Saturday.
“It’s based in what exactly, that Mike Johnson brought bills to the floor that were necessary for national security that the vast majority of members wanted to vote on?” Crenshaw said. “So allowing the democratic process to move forward. Our process that we have in our constitution to move forward is apparently the crime of the century, according to these people.”
Greene filed a motion to vacate Johnson earlier in March. The Georgia lawmaker announced this week that she will force a vote on the matter next week. So far, only two Republicans—Reps. Thomas Massie (KY) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.)— have publicly come out in support of the motion to remove Johnson as speaker.
“What they do is, they make it impossible for the speaker to actually have leverage over the Democrats and get things that we want, like border security,” Crenshaw said. “Marjorie Taylor Greene has never tried to lay out a plan to get border security done along with the supplemental package…Tom Massie has never done anything on that front. She’s never written legislation on asylum reform, or anything to do with border security, and a lot of us have.”
“They make it impossible for us to have leverage with a very slim majority, and then they turn around and punish the speaker when they can’t make a deal that we want, and then they say, ‘Oh, it was all their fault, and now the real patriots are taking over,'” he added. “It’s a game and voters have to stop falling for it. They’re not fighting for you, they’re fighting for your attention.”
House Democratic leadership have said they would help save Johnson after he put a Ukraine aid bill on the floor which passed with bipartisan support.
