Marjorie Taylor Greene lays out demands for GOP House speaker vote if Republicans retake majority in 2022

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 1 of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies successful Congress, connected Thursday laid retired demands for a GOP person to gain her ballot for House Speaker if Republicans are capable to retake the bulk aft the 2022 elections and formed uncertainty connected House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy being elected to the position.

“We cognize that Kevin McCarthy has a occupation successful our conference. He doesn’t person the afloat enactment to beryllium speaker,” Greene said connected an episode of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s podcast that aired Thursday morning. “He doesn’t person the votes that are there, due to the fact that there’s galore of america that are precise unhappy astir the nonaccomplishment to clasp Republicans accountable, portion conservatives similar me, Paul Gosar, and galore others conscionable perpetually instrumentality the maltreatment by the Democrats.”

Greene, who antecedently told reporters she would beryllium laying retired a database of demands to gain her talker vote, mentioned immoderate of the challenges that laic up successful McCarthy’s quest for the speaker’s gavel. Among her demands, the Republican told Gaetz she wants chap GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming kicked retired of the House Republican Conference for serving connected the January 6 committee, thing McCarthy has truthful acold resisted. She besides said she has nary respect for existent GOP leadership.

The bid from Greene comes amid vexation from immoderate Republicans with GOP House enactment arsenic McCarthy eyes the House enactment position. Trump’s allies successful Congress — who person voiced expanding skepticism and vexation with McCarthy successful caller weeks — person already started to flex their muscles successful the imaginable contention for speaker, which is inactive much than a twelvemonth away.

Depending connected the party’s margins, McCarthy could person a mathematics occupation if these Trump allies instrumentality together. The House Freedom Caucus, which denied McCarthy the speakership erstwhile before, is comprised of astir 40 members.

Some successful Trump’s orbit, including Gaetz and Trump’s erstwhile main of unit Mark Meadows, have besides teased that Trump should marque a play for the speaker’s gavel, a determination that could beryllium designed to enactment McCarthy connected announcement and punctual him of the leverage that the MAGA helping of the enactment would person successful a speaker’s race.

Greene besides wants to spot mean Rep. John Katko, a New York Republican and McCarthy ally, suffer his apical spot connected the House Homeland Security Committee. Katko, who represents a cardinal plaything district, supported the bipartisan infrastructure law, voted to impeach Trump and supported the Democratic-led effort to region Greene from her committees.

“Katko’s not a Republican. He’s a Democrat,” Greene said. “Our league and the NRCC needs to halt playing this majority-maker game.”