Republican firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) vented her frustrations with new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a lengthy interview with The Hill published Saturday.
Johnson was elected to the speakership in October weeks after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was ousted from the job.
According to Greene, Johnson’s speakership record so far has been “terrible.”
“He went from having a voting record to literally a month later … going against his own voting record and being Speaker of the House,” Greene told The Hill. “Literally all of a sudden talking about doing things that he had literally voted against only a month before that. And, you know, that was unacceptable to me, and it still is.”
Greene criticized Johnson for his “hypocrisy” when dealing with a potential government shutdown and his plan to pair Ukraine aid with border security.
“Mike Johnson comes in and first thing he starts talking about is passing another CR, and I’m like, wait a minute, what? You just voted against it. That was the whole reason why Kevin McCarthy got ousted, was working with Democrats and passing a clean CR. And you know, for me I was like, what a hypocrisy,” Greene told The Hill.
“And then the next thing he starts immediately talking about is funding Ukraine, that shocked me,” Greene added. “I was like, why would he even be talking about that? He voted against it.”
The anti-leadership congresswoman who later turned into a leadership ally during McCarthy’s tenure, says the current speaker has a long way to go before earning her trust.
“Trust is earned and that’s based on actions, not on promises or intentions or saying, ‘I’m brand-new here,’” Greene said. “Honeymoon is over; it’s all about actions from here on out.”
