The internal struggle in the GOP took a strange turn.
Establishment Republicans’ war on the base just escalated.
And Trey Gowdy got in the middle of this ugly fight and nothing will be the same.
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was among the many conservatives furious that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) capitulated to Joe Biden in the last round of spending negotiations.
Johnson caved in on a package of six spending bills totaling $1.2 trillion that allowed Joe Biden to keep the border open and smuggle in millions more illegal aliens.
The deal also included money for Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice to open a red flag gun confiscation operation to seize firearms from law-abiding American citizens.
Greene responded by introducing a motion to vacate the chair and remove Johnson as speaker of the House.
Johnson responded to the avalanche of conservative criticism in an interview with Trey Gowdy for Gowdy’s Sunday night Fox News show.
Gowdy asked Johnson how a fight over removing him as speaker of the House aided Republicans in their quest to expand their majority this November.
Johnson took a massive cut at that softball and claimed a motion to vacate served as a sideshow to his job to save the country from Joe Biden’s socialist agenda.
“I don’t think it does,” Johnson responded. “And I think all of my other Republican colleagues recognize this is a distraction from our mission. Again, the mission is to save the Republic. And the only way we can do that is if we grow the House majority, win the Senate and win the White House. So, we don’t need any dissension right now.”
Conservatives like Greene argued Johnson’s unwillingness to fight on the border – an issue where polls show Donald Trump leads Joe Biden by as much as 35 points – and say the House won’t pass any spending bill until Biden seals the border is the biggest detriment to Republicans keeping the House.
Voters elected Republicans to act as a check on Biden, and Johnson instead serves as Biden’s rubberstamp.
Johnson then claimed he agreed with Greene that the spending bill fell short.
But that only invited more questions about why he signed on to fund Joe Biden’s government if he thought the deal was so awful.
“Marjorie’s a friend. She’s very frustrated about, for example, the last appropriations bills. Guess what? So am I. As we discussed Trey, these are not the perfect pieces of legislation that you and I and Marjorie would draft if we had the ability to do it differently. But with the smallest margin in U.S. history, we’re sometimes going to get legislation that we don’t like. And the Democrats know that when we don’t all stand together with our razor-thin majority that they have a better negotiation position. And that’s why we got some of the things we didn’t like,” Johnson added.
Johnson then pointed to unnamed and nonexistent conservative wins as the rationale for why House Republicans should keep him in the speaker’s chair.
“Now we fought like warrior poets to keep some of those Senate appropriations or some of those Senate earmarks out of the bill. And we were successful in getting a lot of the terrible stuff out, but a few of them made it through. And that’s what Marjorie’s upset about, and I am, too. But I want to talk with her about reforming the budgeting and spending process going forward. That’s what Republicans are for. That’s the transformational kind of changes that we can forge if we all stand together,” Johnson concluded.
Johnson is now facing a critical month.
The speaker revealed he will again surrender to Biden and this time put a Ukraine war funding bill on the floor of the House that doesn’t contain any policy changes to secure America’s southern border.
Now Johnson is fighting for his political survival as conservatives begin to sour on his leadership as Johnson continues to fail to live up to his promise.
And no one is sure how this one will turn out.
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