Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is already taking aim at her party's new speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA).
In an interview with The Daily Caller, Greene blasted Johnson because he declined to instruct Republican members to vote for her resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who participated in a peaceful protest at the Capitol. Greene called the protest an insurrection.
"Well, he didn't whip votes for it," she said of Johnson. "He told people to vote their conscience. So he was not supportive of it."
Greene noted that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and other Republicans had said any speaker who passed a continuing resolution to fund the government or provided aid to Ukraine "should be ousted."
"So my question is, we're about to have speaker Mike Johnson pass the CR," she remarked. "And he is talking about passing mega, mega Ukraine funding … trying to pair it with border security, pretending that the Biden administration is going to do anything to secure our borders. And he's already funded another foreign war, which is Israel."
"Where are the red lines? Do they still apply? Or are the eight willing to admit that it was really something personal the entire time?" Greene asked, referring to the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). "And I'm just tired of the hypocrisy. I've been calling this place the house of hypocrites ever since I was elected. And I still continue to find it to be so."
