- Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her demands for her vote for the next GOP leader to earn the House Speaker position
- Her demands are predicated on if Republicans reclaim the majority following the upcoming 2022 elections
- Greene laid out her terms Thursday while calling into question House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s ability to be elected to the House Speaker position
- Among Greene’s demands are kicking out fellow GOP members for participating in the January 6 committee
- The Trump ally also demands the removal of political foe NY Rep. John Katko from his position on the House Homeland Security Committee
- Greene added that she has no respect for the incumbent GOP leadership
- The roughly 40-member House Freedom Caucus has already rejected McCarthy’s quest for the speakership once before
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her demands for her vote for the next GOP leader to earn the House Speaker position, so long as Republicans reclaim the majority following the upcoming 2022 elections.
Among Greene’s demands are kicking out fellow GOP members for participating in the January 6 committee and the removal of political foe NY Rep. John Katko from his position on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Greene, who was one of former President Donald Trump‘s reliable allies in Congress, laid out her terms on Thursday while calling into question House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s ability to be elected to the House Speaker position, according to CNN.
Greene had previously mentioned she would have a list of stipulations for whoever is to earn her speaker vote, and raised several obstacles that McCarthy has in his pursuit for the House Speaker position.
The Republican told Gaetz that among those demands is having Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, both fellow members of the GOP, kicked out of the House Republican Conference for participating in the January 6 committee, which was a proposed commission that would have investigated the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
McCarthy, who has thus far defied efforts towards said commission, added that she has no respect for the incumbent GOP leadership, CNN reported.
Greene’s demands in obstructing McCarthy’s quest for the speaker’s gavel comes amidst a larger sense of resentment from the Georgia Representative and a handful of other House Republicans against current GOP leadership.