Johnson: Motion To Oust Me Is Just A Distraction, We Fought Like “Warrior Poets” Against Senate Earmarks

“I think all of my other Republican colleagues recognize this [motion to vacate] is a distraction from our mission. Again, the mission is to save the Republic. And the only way we can do that is if we grow the House majority, win the Senate and win the White House. So, we don’t need any dissension right now.

“Look, Marjorie Taylor Greene filed the motion. It’s not a privileged motion so it doesn’t move automatically. It’s just hanging there, and she’s frustrated. She and I exchanged text messages even today. We’re going to talk early next week.

“Marjorie’s a friend. She’s very frustrated about, for example, the last appropriations bills. Guess what? So am I. As we discussed Trey, these are not the perfect pieces of legislation that you and I and Marjorie would draft if we had the ability to do it differently.

“But with the smallest margin in U.S. history, we’re sometimes going to get legislation that we don’t like. And the Democrats know that when we don’t all stand together with our razor-thin majority that they have a better negotiation position. And that’s why we got some of the things we didn’t like.

“Now we fought like warrior poets to keep some of those Senate appropriations or some of those Senate earmarks out of the bill. And we were successful in getting a lot of the terrible stuff out, but a few of them made it through. And that’s what Marjorie’s upset about, and I am, too.” – Mike Johnson, last night on Fox.