House Freedom Caucus Chairman Good, members aren't signing on to Greene's effort to remove Johnson

The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and many of its members aren't signing on to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's effort to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., with a motion to vacate. 

Virginia Rep. Rep. Bob Good, the chairman of the strongly conservative group, has criticized Johnson's support for the $1.2 trillion spending bill that passed as well as the $61 billion in Ukraine aid that passed without provisions to pay for it. But he urged fellow members to wait until after November elections to address the speaker issue.

Voters in November will cast ballots for all 435 House seats, for two-year terms.

“We need to wait until November and have a speaker contest,” Good said Monday evening, according to Punchbowl News. “And I think with each action that [Johnson] takes that solidifies the coalition government, the working with Democrats, the betrayal of the trusted Republicans across the country who gave us the majority, I think that weakens his position as speaker and makes his ability to win in November contests that much more unlikely.”

So far, only Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., a member of the Freedom Caucus, have supported Greene's motion to vacate.

Additional members of the caucus have not publicly supported the effort. 

Johnson has said he focused on governing and not threats to oust him from the speakership.