The House is back in session Tuesday after a two-week-long Easter recess, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is ratcheting up her attacks on Speaker Mike Johnson in a letter to her Republican colleagues on Tuesday in an effort to convince them to join her call to remove him from the House's top job.
The Georgia Republican's five-page letter outlines the way she believes Johnson is failing the party including his "total surrender to" Democrats and their agenda and his shift away from Republican ideals when it comes to providing aid to Ukraine.
"I will not tolerate our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson serving the Democrats and the Biden administration and helping them achieve their policies that are destroying our country. He is throwing our razor-thin majority into chaos by not serving his own GOP conference that elected him," Greene wrote in the letter.
"With so much at stake for our future and the future of our children, I will not tolerate this type of 'leadership,'" Greene later wrote in the letter. "This has been a complete and total surrender to, if not complete and total lockstep with, the Democrats' agenda that has angered our Republican base so much and given them very little reason to vote for a Republican House majority."
The letter is a strong rebuke of Johnson yet from Greene, who filed a motion to vacate Johnson just before the chamber broke for recess. She made the move after a vote to fund the government to prevent a shutdown -- which Johnson needed Democratic votes to pass.
Greene then called her motion to vacate a "warning," adding that "it's time for our conference to choose a new speaker."
In her letter, she warned that her Republican colleagues risk losing support from their constituents by supporting Johnson -- and risk losing the majority.
"If these actions by the leaders of our conference continue, then we are not a Republican party -- we are a Uniparty that is hell-bent on remaining on the path of self-inflicted destruction," Greene wrote. "I will neither support nor take part in any of that, and neither will the people we represent."
In the last few weeks, Greene's criticism of Johnson has only grown.
On Monday, she called him a "Democratic Speaker" because of his propensity to lean on Democrats to pass legislation.
"Our Republican Speaker of the House is upsetting many of our members by relying on Democrats to pass major bills and working with Dems by giving them everything they want," Greene wrote on X. "That makes him the Democrat Speaker of the House not our Republican Speaker of the House."
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