Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took to the X platform on Thursday to vent her frustration at the shrinking Republican House majority, which she attributed to self-inflicted wounds.
“Well.. Now in 2024, we will have a 1 seat majority in the House of Representatives. Congratulations Freedom Caucus for one and 105 Rep who expel our own for the other,” she wrote. “I can assure you Republican voters didn’t give us the majority to crash the ship,” she said, adding, “Hopefully no one dies.”
Well..
Now in 2024, we will have a 1 seat majority in the House of Representatives.
Congratulations Freedom Caucus for one and 105 Rep who expel our own for the other.
I can assure you Republican voters didn’t give us the majority to crash the ship.
Hopefully no one dies.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 6, 2023
Her venting comes after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this week that he would leave Congress by the end of the year. It also comes after nearly half the GOP conference voted to oust now-former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has yet to be convicted of any crimes he’s been charged with.
Per the Hill, “Republicans will only be able to afford three GOP defections to pass any party-line legislation” after McCarthy’s departure, and Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) is also expected to exit Congress next year.
McCarthy wrote that he would resign from his House seat at the end of the month, although he pledged to “serve America in new ways.”
“I know my work is only getting started,” he said.
Also, last week 105 Republicans voted to expel Santos from Congress. But 112 did not, and several of them have since warned that the unprecedented action — expelling him despite the fact that he had not been convicted of a crime — could be used as “political warfare” in the future.
“Given the merging of politics and justice these days, an expulsion vote could be used as political warfare or to tip the scale in a decision of an ongoing court case,” Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) warned.
“It seems the sentence is being handed down before the conviction,” he added. “Congress should follow the precedent of the last 232 years and only vote to expel once a member is convicted of a crime or treason.”
Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) concurred, tweeting that the Santos expulsion vote set a “dangerous precedent.”
“I believe that expelling a Member of Congress before conviction sets a dangerous precedent, which is why today I voted no to expel Rep. George Santos,” he tweeted along with his full statement.
A special election “for Santos’s seat will be held February 13 as Republicans hope to at least hold on to their slim majority in the 2024 elections,” Breitbart News noted.
