Greene Will Attempt to Oust Speaker Johnson On Way Out of Congress
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is reportedly gauging whether she has enough support to pursue a late effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as her time in office winds down.
Greene has been quietly approaching colleagues to assess backing for a possible motion to vacate the chair, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions who spoke to MS NOW on condition of anonymity.
Under House rules adopted last year, at least nine Republicans would be required to trigger a vote on removing the speaker — a safeguard put in place after the 2023 removal of Speaker Kevin McCarthy plunged the chamber into weeks of turmoil.
“Marjorie is approaching members to get to nine who will oust the speaker,” one anonymous source reportedly said. “And if we don’t get to work on codifying Trump’s agenda, anything can happen.”
However, Greene has publicly refuted the report, trashing MS NOW journalists who approached her about the claim. She insisted it was “not true” that she was organizing against Johnson.
“I’m not interested in participating in your story,” Greene said.
The Georgia Republican announced last month that she is resigning from Congress next month, following a contentious split with President Trump.
Greene posted a nearly 11-minute video and a four-page signed resignation letter on X, formally marking the end of her five-year tenure representing Georgia’s 14th District.
Her departure follows weeks of escalating tensions with the president after she repeatedly called for the immediate public release of the Jeffrey Epstein client list and related files. The dispute prompted Trump to criticize her and withdraw his endorsement in several posts on Truth Social.
“I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” Greene said in the video.
“If I am cast aside by the president and the MAGA political machine and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders and the elite donor class that can never, ever relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well,” she added.
“I have fought harder than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald Trump and Republicans to power, traveling the country for years, spending millions of my own money, missing precious time with my family that I can never get back,” Greene wrote in her resignation letter.
“Meanwhile most of the Establishment Republicans, who secretly hate him and who stabbed him in the back and never defended him against anything, have all been welcomed in after the election,” she noted further.
One House Republican told Axios that Greene had not given any indication that she was planning to abruptly resign, calling her decision “shocking.”
“But she’s not wrong,” the lawmaker, a right-wing populist like Greene, told Axios. “I agree with her sentiments. I … have thought of doing the same.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) posted on X: “I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie. I’ll miss her tremendously. She embodies what a true Representative should be.”
In her video, Greene referenced the Epstein files, which Congress voted in November to release and which Trump quickly signed.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” Greene said.
Greene has faced both criticism and support for her position on Epstein from various segments of the right. She has also become a focal point for adopting a strong “America First” approach regarding funding Israel.
