Marjorie Taylor Greene is not 'proving to be' a serious lawmaker, Johnson says

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in an interview to be aired Wednesday evening that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is not "proving to be" a serious lawmaker as she attempts to remove him from his position.

In a Wednesday morning press conference, Greene said that she would attempt to remove Johnson from the speakership next week.

"Next week, I am going to be calling this motion to vacate," Greene said. "I can't wait to see Democrats go out and support a Republican speaker and have to go home to their primaries and have to run for Congress again having supported a Republican speaker, a Christian conservative. I think that will play well. I'm excited about it."

In an interview recorded Tuesday night that will air at 6 p.m. Wednesday on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Johnson was asked if he thought Greene is a “serious lawmaker.”

“I don’t think she's proving to be, no,” Johnson said in a preview of the interview.

“I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about her,” he continued. "I got to do my job, and we do the right thing, and we let the chips fall where they may. And that's my philosophy, that's how we're governing."

“We're going to keep the train on the tracks and show the American people not just what we're against, but what we're for. That there's a conservative agenda that is necessary to get the country back on the right track, and the way for us to do that is to keep and grow the House majority,” Johnson added.

"Descending into chaos and closing the House down and vacating the chair again is exactly the opposite of what needs to happen," he said.

Greene has vowed for weeks to remove Johnson with a parliamentary procedure called a "motion to vacate," which she initially filed in March. Any conference member may call for a full House vote to remove the speaker.

Largely motivating her effort is Johnson's recent reliance on votes from Democrats to pass key legislation such as the $1.2 trillion spending bill and a $95 foreign aid package with $61 billion for Ukraine.