Mike Johnson claims motion to vacate ‘chaos’ will ‘hurt our cause’

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed his gratitude for the opposition to the “misguided effort” to oust him as House Speaker on Thursday.

Johnson appeared on Fox News’s Fox and Friends to respond to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) effort to vacate him as speaker. There were 11 Republican members and 32 Democratic members who voted to keep her motion, while the rest voted to table it.

“Look, I appreciate the overwhelming show of confidence by my colleagues to defeat that misguided effort,” Johnson said. “Imagine if we closed the House in the middle of hot wars around the globe when China could move on Taiwan, Iran could fire a nuke at Israel. I mean, you know, anything could happen right now. And we need to be working
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