Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasts Mike Johnson’s Time As Speaker: ‘Terrible’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) does not have a positive assessment of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) tenure so far.

In an interview with The Hill, Greene said she believes Johnson has been “terrible” since he replaced former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)

“He went from having a voting record to literally a month later … going against his own voting record and being Speaker of the House,” the Georgia congresswoman said.

She added, “Literally all of a sudden talking about doing things that he had literally voted against only a month before that. And, you know, that was unacceptable to me, and it still is.”

Specifically, she cited Johnson’s decision to pass a “clean” government funding bill.

“Mike Johnson comes in and first thing he starts talking about is passing another CR (continuing resolution), and I’m like, wait a minute, what? You just voted against it. That was the whole reason why Kevin McCarthy got ousted, was working with Democrats and passing a clean CR. And you know, for me I was like, what a hypocrisy,” Greene said.

Greene became a vocal supporter of McCarthy’s bid to be speaker last year as a bloc of Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) — seen by some as more conservative — opposed him.

She also opposed to effort to oust McCarthy as speaker in October and later said the Republicans behind the move “