As a mutiny appears to be building from the right flank to clip House Speaker Mike Johnson from his post, the Louisianan is forging ahead to put a U.S. national security aid package to back war-torn Ukraine and Israel.
One of those Republicans who has been an outspoken critic of Johnson is Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) who appeared on CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper to express his souring on his fellow conservative colleague.
"I would rather us do our job, try to move this stuff forward and work together, — but I will say I'm very disappointed in the speaker," he said. "This is a bridge too far in terms of where we're headed right now in terms of putting Ukraine first rather than America's borders first."
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"I am sympathetic and open to having a conversation about Israel and Ukraine but only after you've done your job to secure the border in the United States; and so that's my starting place."
A pink slip drumbeat has been increasing ever since Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threatened to sack Johnson by filing a motion to vacate the speaker from office.
The move is reminiscent of the fate that befell former speaker Kevin McCarthy last year.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) joined her in seeking Johnson's removal.
"I asked him to resign," Massie told reporters on Tuesday.
Johnson's response, according to Massie, was to say fat chance.
"He said he would not."
Greene reinforced her determination for a change of guard posting on Twitter/X: “Speaker Johnson must announce a resignation date and allow Republicans to elect a new Speaker to put America First and pass a Republican agenda.”
“I am not resigning,” Johnson boomed after meeting with fellow House Republicans at the Capitol. “We are simply here trying to do our jobs,” Johnson said, adding that the talk of his demise as speaker were “absurd ... not helpful.”
Roy wishes the speaker could return to his original stance of protecting America's borders first.
"I would love to do what we need to support Israel again... but in this $95 billion package there's $9 billion and humanitarian aid... which if you go look at it goes to fund Hamas," he told Tapper. "So if we funding Israel, I support it, but we're also funding Israel's enemies and funding has this is the kind of duplicitous crap the American people are tired of."
"So I'd like to go back to the drawing board, pass Israel stand-alone and not have this package that has that funding and it did that i think is nefarious and focus on the border first."
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