House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) dismissed threats by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday after she claimed she’d transfer to oust him from the speaker’s chair if he helps extra support for Ukraine.
Johnson weighed in after Greene instructed Fox News on Sunday that she’d carry a movement to vacate the chair if the speaker supported a bipartisan deal that would come with funding for Ukraine together with U.S. border safety.
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Johnson instructed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that he wasn’t “worried” concerning the threats to his job.
“I have a job to do. We all have to do our jobs. Marjorie Taylor Greene is very upset about the lack of oversight over the funding and the lack of articulation of a plan, as am I, all of us,” he stated.
Greene argued final week that it’d be a “failing, losing” technique if a deal concerned buying and selling billions for Ukraine “for our own country’s border security.”
Her risk comes after she beforehand criticized House Freedom Caucus Chair Chip Roy (R-Va.) for not ruling out supporting a movement in addition Johnson from his put up, calling it “the dumbest thing that could happen.”
Collins, on Wednesday, famous that Greene doesn’t need “any Ukraine funding, period, no matter what the White House says the plan is.”
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Johnson stated he understands this and claimed Greene has “made her position very clear” to him.
“We have to do our job. We have to continue to ensure that we’re covering all these bases and we’ll see how all this shakes out,” stated Johnson, who changed former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after he was ousted from the put up in October.
“I’m not worried about that. I got a job to do here and we have to make sure that we get the answers that we’ve demanded.”