Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) railed against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her revamped threat to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
The Texas Republican told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto on Saturday that Greene “needs her time in the spotlight … it’s been a while.”
“And it’s based in what, exactly?” Crenshaw asked rhetorically, referring to the motion to vacate the speaker. “That Mike Johnson brought bills to the floor that were necessary for our national security that the vast majority of members wanted to vote on? 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, which warrants a motion to vacate?”
Crenshaw’s comments come as Greene plans to move forward with a motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership next week. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) have signaled they will support the motion.
“They make it impossible for the speaker to actually have leverage over 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 a supplemental package. I did that. I worked for months to do that. A lot of us did. She has never, Tom Massie has never done anything on that front.”
Greene told reporters this week that she plans to call the motion forward next week, putting a notice on the legislation that would require GOP leaders to bring it to the floor within two legislative days.
”I’m excited about it and also can’t wait to see my Republican conference show their cards and show who we are, because voters deserve it,” Greene said.
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Massie said he thinks Greene has “gone about this in a very reasonable way,” accusing Johnson of “clinging to power by clinging to Democrats.” The speaker, however, called the Georgia Republican “not a serious lawmaker,” a point Crenshaw echoed Saturday.
“It’s a game, and voters have to stop falling for it,” Crenshaw said.
