Freedom Caucus May Try To Oust Johnson As Speaker

The Washington Examiner reports:

Conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus are coming out hard against the top-line spending agreement reached between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the Senate, claiming he sold them out and that the agreement doesn’t go far enough. “The speaker’s office and everyone in town are trying to sell everybody a bill of goods. It’s not true,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told the Washington Examiner.

“Let’s just say there’s a lot of conversations underway right now about our complete lack of confidence now and where the Republican leadership is,” Roy said. When asked if he was referring to conversations about a motion to vacate and remove Johnson as speaker, Roy wouldn’t say. Roy’s position is shared among hard-line conservatives and Freedom Caucus members across the conference.

Read the full article. Roy repeated his hints about ousting Johnson in a CNN interview last night.

Asked if the “real conversations” that House Republicans are going to have this week include potentially moving to oust Speaker Johnson, Rep. Chip Roy says “that’s not the road I prefer” but doesn’t rule it out. “It isn’t good.” pic.twitter.com/tBAIiQ4FSn

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