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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

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Apr 9

Read my letter to my Republican colleagues explaining my decision to file a motion to vacate Speaker Johnson (🧵)

Dear Colleague,

Before we left for Easter break, I filed a motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson after he passed the second minibus, H.Res.1102, which funded the Department of Defense; Financial Services and General Government; the Department of Homeland Security; the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; the Legislative Branch; and the Department of State and Foreign Operations.

This minibus, or rather, Part 2 of a two-part appropriations omnibus, broke our conference rules and the promises we made to our voters. We elected Mike Johnson in late October after three-and-a-half difficult weeks trying to decide on a new Speaker of the House. Mike Johnson sent us all a letter
making his promises to us as to what type of Speaker he would be and outlining his plans going forward. Specifically, he put forth seven tenets that would guide our conference under his speakership, which are quoted below:

1. Restore trust by ensuring total transparency, open processes, and regular order.

2. Advance a comprehensive policy agenda supported by Conference consensus.

3. Promote individual Members, and thus the whole team, by working to understand and emphasize each Member’s unique strengths, district dynamics and challenges, and individual goals and objectives.

4. Engage Members in productive working groups to formulate solutions in key policy areas and enhance our internal communications and team building.

5. Effectively message to persuasively inform the Republican base and the American people of our policy agenda, why we are pursuing it, and how it will ensure liberty, opportunity, and security for all Americans.

6. Build and utilize external coalitions in the conservative ecosphere, including think tanks, policy groups, and other allied organizations that can contribute to our efforts.

7. Develop and grow our majority by building upon our resources and expanding the base to successfully advance our conservative vision and agenda.

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Mike Johnson has unfortunately not lived up to a single one of his self-imposed tenets. Allowing us one day, rather than 72 hours, to review a 1000-plus page bill to which no amendments could be offered was not “ensuring total transparency, open processes, and regular order.” Relying on majority Democrat support to pass a two-part omnibus was not “advancing a policy agenda supported by Conference consensus.” Working behind closed doors with Democrats to produce appropriations texts, NDAA text, and other legislative items was not “working to understand and emphasize each Member’s unique strengths,” and it certainly was not “engaging Members” to work together on consensus legislation. Expelling George Santos, who has not been convicted of any crime, and watching Members retire left and right was not "developing and growing our majority." Fully funding abortion, the trans agenda, the climate agenda, foreign wars, and Biden's border crisis is not "ensuring liberty, opportunity, and security for all Americans."

Soon after he was elected Speaker, Mike passed a CR to prevent a government shutdown (November 14, 2023) which was understandable after being thrown into the Speakership and trying to get his feet under him and hire up new staff. Then we all tried to move forward to heal our fractured and severely damaged conference. Up until Kevin McCarthy was ousted, our GOP conference had passed seven appropriations bills, which were some of the strongest conservative bills passed in decades. Instead of picking up where we left off, with only five more appropriations bills to pass, Mike Johnson did not continue this important process. He instead led us to another CR on January 18, 2024, and got it passed with the support of 207 Democrats and only 107 Republicans, compared to 106 Republicans who voted against it. This time, Mike Johnson passed what he called a “laddered” CR, establishing two government shutdown dates, making government funding even more convoluted.

After this was passed, once again, instead of moving the remaining five appropriations bills to the floor, Speaker Johnson made no effort to finish our appropriations process, even though this is our constitutional duty. Months later, Mike Johnson passed a third CR, this time calling it a "process CR," as if that made continuing Nancy Pelosi's budget yet again any different from the previous CRs. Concurrently, the Senate was not passing their appropriations bills, giving us the upper hand in terms of both messaging and legislative leverage. Then, with little to no communication with our conference, Mike passed the first minibus on March 6, and passed the second minibus two weeks later, on March 22.

This was really a two-part omnibus, split into two minibuses, crammed down our throats, passed under suspension of the rules, breaking the 72-hour rule, giving us one day to read over a thousand pages, and tying our hands behind our backs by not allowing us to make any amendments. Rules? What rules? Remember the precious rules? Apparently, they no longer matter to Mike Johnson, even though he promised to abide by them and enforce them. Speaker Johnson's omnibus did nothing to stop Biden's deadly border invasion—it fully funded it. It did nothing to stop the energy-killing Green New Deal climate agenda—it fully funded it. It did nothing to stop the weaponized DOJ and FBI—it fully funded it. It did nothing to stop the trans agenda on kids—it fully funded it. It did nothing to stop abortion—it fully funded FULL-TERM abortion clinics, and so much more. Here are some of the things funded by Mike’s omnibus:

• $280,000 for Climate Change Abatement Research (p. 174, DOE Joint Explanatory
Statement [JES])

• $2.5 million for Energy Resilience for Disadvantaged Communities (p. 251, THUD JES)

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• $1 million for EV Infrastructure in Chicago (p. 61, THUD JES)

• $400,000 for an LGBT care center for minors (p. 129, LHHS JES)

• $400,000 for a group with a “Gender Affirming Clothing Program” for kids (p. 146, LHHS JES)

• $400,000 for an LGBT group that provides undergarments to transgender people that hide breasts and genitalia (p. 172, LHHS JES)

• $1.8 million for a hospital in Rhode Island that provides abortions up to 22 weeks (p. 145, LHHS JES)

• $650,000 for a hospital in New Hampshire that provides late-term abortions (p. 118, LHHS JES)

• $200 million for FBI headquarters (p. 230, Omnibus Part 2)

As a matter of fact, there is little daylight between Nancy Pelosi's omnibus in the 117th Congress and Mike Johnson's omnibus in the 118th Congress, in spite of Americans giving Republicans the
majority in order to stop the Democrats’ “America Last” destructive agenda.

Some people are claiming weak excuses like, "this is just how you have to govern in a divided government." However, in the 1990s, Republicans won the House under Democrat President Bill Clinton and a Democrat-controlled Senate. Under Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich, the
Republican-controlled House fought for their agenda and was able to balance the budget, get conservative wins, and do the job that Republican voters sent them to do. This led to actually paying down the debt over several years by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Even with our razor-thin Republican majority, we could have at least secured the border, with it being the number one issue in the country and being the issue that is causing Biden to lose in poll after poll. This came on the heels of Laken Riley being brutally murdered, women and children being raped by illegal alien monsters, and our own Border Patrol and Texas National Guard being run over by hordes of military-aged illegals. Great legislation like H.R. 2 and the Laken Riley Act are only messaging bills unless we fight to enforce them in our government funding bills.

We could have also taken out funding for abortion and the trans agenda on kids if our own Speaker would have allowed us to offer amendments. We could have achieved other worthy victories if we had only put up a fight against Democrats.

Instead, Mike Johnson worked with Chuck Schumer rather than with us, and gave Joe Biden and the Democrats everything they wanted—no different from how a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries would have done. Speaker Johnson fully funded Special Counsel Jack Smith's witch hunt and 91 indictments
against President Trump, our Republican Presidential nominee. If convicted, this would be a deathsentence for President Trump. A death sentence for President Trump is precisely what the Democrats
want. They want him dead, and our power of appropriations could have stopped it, but Speaker Johnson didn't even try.

The weaponized DOJ is arresting a new January 6th election protestor every single day. Biden's DOJ is putting nonviolent election protestors in jail for years. People who peacefully walked in the Capitol

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

@RepMTG

Apr 5

🚨 Mike Johnson fully funded the weaponized Department of Justice at the same level Nancy Pelosi did as Joe Biden is trying to put President Trump in jail for the rest of his life!

🧵 IMPORTANT THREAD

Biden’s weaponized DOJ isn’t just coming after President Trump, look at what they are doing to peaceful J6 defendants.

Just yesterday, the weaponized DOJ convicted a MAGA grandma who walked in open doors, spoke to a Capitol Police officer, and walked out.

She remained completely nonviolent.

Every day, the weaponized DOJ arrests a new person who protested the 2020 election. Mike Johnson is FULLY funding this. He didn’t even put up a fight.

“Pro-life” Speaker Johnson fully funded the weaponized DOJ that just arrested 4 more peaceful pro-life protestors who prayed outside an abortion clinic.

They didn’t destroy property or assault innocent Americans like BLM did, they prayed peacefully.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

@RepMTG

Jan 6

The aftermath of January 6, 2021.

Oops, my bad.. that was actually from the 2020 BLM riots.

So was the looting of this Target 👇

Ah ha! This must be from January 6th.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

@RepMTG

Nov 1, 2023

List of feckless Republicans that voted WITH Democrats to table my censure resolution against Rashida Tlaib.

This is why Republicans NEVER do anything to stop the communists Democrats or ever hold anyone accountable!!

PATHETIC.

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Here is the list of Republicans that did not vote.

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Van Orden changed his vote in the record.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

@RepMTG

Oct 23, 2023

News you hardly know bc the mainstream news is obsessed with war in foreign countries:

🚨Oversight Committee released a $200,000 check written to Joe Biden from his brother James Biden from Americore - money laundering. And we have more coming in the impeachment inquiry.

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🚨Record high border encounters at 269,735 migrants last month, 2.48 million for FY 2023, 169 terrorists arrested at our border this year (higher than past 6 years combined), and over 1.5 million gotaways are free in the US.

Democrats love open borders - America LAST!

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🚨Rashida Tlaib led a ProHamas insurrection in the Cannon building. Organizers are Global Intifada, SPLC, Jewish Voice for Peace (ADL labels a radical antisemitic anti-Israel Hamas sympathizer group), and hundreds were arrested, are they going to be prosecuted like J6’ers?

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

@RepMTG

Oct 12, 2023

I’m supporting Jim Jordan for Speaker. I’m not supporting Scalise. I like Steve Scalise, and as I said, I want him to beat cancer, and he should be focused on that.

What I do think is an unfair and quite frankly disgusting attack is members of our conference using..

🧵 THREAD

..Democrat talking points, using the same lines of attack that Democrats use against every single Republican, every single election, every single day, in these halls of Congress to attack Steve.

He isn’t a White Supremacist. We all know that. He’s a good man.

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Support who you want. But when we have a member of our conference using Democrat BLM lines to attack a guy for Speaker that more than 100 of our own conference supports, you’re now saying half the conference supports a white supremacist and giving Dems..

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