Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) joined Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) Tuesday and told reporters he asked Johnson directly to resign.
“I asked him to resign,” Massie told CNN’s Manu Raju.
“He said he would not,” the Republican from Kentucky continued. “And then I said, ‘You’re the one who’s going to put us into this.’ Because the motion is going to get called, OK? Does anybody doubt that? The motion will get called, and then he’s going to lose more votes than Kevin McCarthy.”
McCarthy formally resigned from Congress in December after a group of far-right Republicans voted to oust him from the speakership — a first in U.S. history.
Responding to the effort to oust him Tuesday, Johnson said, “I am not resigning, and it is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs.”
“It is not helpful to the cause. It is not helpful to the country. It does not help the House Republicans advance our agenda,” Johnson added.
