'Dragging our brand down': GOP senator slams 'horrible leader' Marjorie Taylor Greene

24 April 2024

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan foreign aid bill on April 20, far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) angrily railed against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and once again called for him to be ousted from that position.

In an April 21 post on X, formerly Twitter, Greene wrote, "Mike Johnson’s Speakership is OVER! He has betrayed Republicans by handing the gavel to Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and the rest of the Democrats. He betrayed us on border security. He betrayed us on funding endless foreign wars. He betrayed us on FISA. He betrayed us on fully funding Biden’s DOJ. And Mike Johnson did it all by working with the Democrats. It’s time for him to resign, so Republicans can elect a Speaker who will work for our party."

Still, liberal Rep. Ro Khanna is defending Johnson — and saying that despite all their policy differences, he will vote against removing him as speaker. Khanna, on April 21, told ABC News that Johnson "deserves to keep his job." And he believes that some other Democrats will join him in voting against ousting the Louisiana Republican.

Meanwhile, conservative Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) is clearly fed up with Greene's antics. And CNN's Erin Burnett, during an April 23 broadcast, played audio of Tillis forcefully calling her out.

In the audio, Tillis said of Greene, "I think she's uninformed. She is a total waste of time. She is a horrible leader. She is dragging our brand down. She, not the Democrats, are the biggest risk to us getting back to a majority."

During a conversation with her colleague Manu Raju, Burnett noted that Tillis' scathing comments about Greene reflect a "huge and unprecedented rift within in the Republican Party."

Greene, however, isn't backing down.

During an appearance on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, the MAGA congresswoman said she doesn't care if the "speaker's office becomes a revolving door."

Greene told Bannon, "If that's exactly what needs to happen, then let it be. But the days are over of the old Republican Party that wants to fund foreign wars and murder people in foreign lands, while they stab the American people in their face."

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