Marjorie Taylor Greene Fires Back at Motion Critics: 'Didn't Happen'

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has hit back at critics after her motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson failed.

Democrats joined Republicans in a 359-43 vote to kill the motion on Wednesday.

In a lengthy post on X, formerly Twitter, Greene said that predictions made by her opponents about the consequences of her move had not materialized.

"All the scary bad things they all told you would happen if I called the motion to vacate didn't happen," the Georgia Republican wrote.

Greene referenced GOP concerns that Democrats would take control of the House and that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries would become speaker.

"Didn't happen," she wrote.

She said that instead, most Democrats voted to save Johnson because "they knew it was impossible to take control of the House and they want to keep Johnson because he's given them everything they want."

The congresswoman dismissed opposition to her motion as being the actions of the "uniparty," using a conspiratorial far-right term to suggest the two parties are indistinguishable.

"The Uniparty reared its ugly head and voted to protect their Uniparty leader and to keep the status quo," Greene wrote on X.

Johnson has faced Greene's ire after he worked with Democrats to prevent a government shutdown and broke months of deadlock to pass billions of dollars in foreign aid for Ukraine.

The congresswoman has for weeks threatened to trigger the motion to oust him, but failed to garner significant support from her Republican colleagues.

Speaking to reporters after the vote, Johnson said: "I want to say that I appreciate the show of confidence from my colleagues to defeat this misguided effort, that is certainly what it was."

"Hopefully this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress. It's regrettable, it's not who we are as Americans, and we're better than this. We need to get beyond it," he said.

Greene's move also received criticism from former President Donald Trump, of whom she has long been a loyal acolyte.

"With a Majority of One, shortly growing to three or four, we're not in a position of voting on a Motion to Vacate. At some point, we may very well be, but this is not the time," Trump said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.

"If we show DISUNITY, which will be portrayed as CHAOS, it will negatively affect everything! Mike Johnson is a good man who is trying very hard."

Greene, a vocal member of the Republican Party's far-right MAGA wing, has increasingly found herself isolatedeven within her own party.