GOP Rep Biggs: No 'critical mass' of lawmakers to oust Johnson

Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs on Monday suggested that House Speaker Mike Johnson was likely to maintain his post in the face of Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion to vacate the chair.

Greene officially filed the motion to remove Johnson in the wake of his support for a $1.2 trillion "minibus" spending package. Following a recess, Greene returned and circulated a letter outlining her grievances with Johnson's leadership. Earlier this month, Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar joined Greene and Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie in sponsoring the motion.

"I think it's tabled," Biggs said of the motion on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "I just don't think that you're seeing the critical mass, perhaps, that, that she would like to see. What I would say is there's a lot of discontent."

"And then and then some of us feel far deeper than discontent... there's a lot of anger as well and frustration. But I think that just mirrors what the American people feel," he went on. "I mean, when you look at the American people when I was at speaking places and going places last week, they're very frustrated."

"And as you know, people say 'well, why do we vote for Republicans over Democrats? When the Democrats are in there they don't have to form coalitions with Republicans, they don't care," he went on. "But Republicans, we don't do Republican things. We instead focus on on this, this weird conglomeration that becomes a European style coalition government."

"[I]nstead of getting something that's conservative, Republican out of the House, and just doing doing it over and over again, realizing that [the] Senate is not going to pass it, okay. But let's still keep fighting," he said. "But this surrender, I think that surrender is what has frustrated the American people and frustrated those of us in Congress is that our leadership [has] essentially run the white flag up and said, 'we're content just to manage the decline instead of fighting to to restore the country.'"

Biggs went on to suggest that Johnson, ahead of the November elections, should bring votes on border security and energy policy to the floor every day before the contests to highlight the policy distinctions between Republicans and Democrats.

"[T]his is what I've begged the speaker to do. And we're trying to set it up so my office will give him the option that he should be bringing... a border security bill to the floor every day we're in session until we're out of session," he said, "and force the vote, force the Democrats to vote against border security every day... so the American people can see there is a real distinction on border."

"Same thing when energy policy," Biggs went on. "You should do a lot of energy bills... that would free up American energy. That's the types of things you should be doing over and over and over again, because the American people have to understand Congress is actually is broken, because the Democrats don't want to actually fix these problems. That's that's what I would say."

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