“I try not to react to what Marjorie Taylor Greene says every day,” Johnson said at a press conference on Friday. “I don’t know what she’s talking about.”
Despite her history as a conservative firebrand, Greene has in recent weeks been critical of her own party, particularly with regard to the ongoing government shutdown.
In a Thursday interview with Axios, she took aim at Johnson over his refusal to answer questions about Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), who has been hit with a restraining order after a former girlfriend, Lindsay Langston, accused him of threatening to release sexually explicit photos of her following their split.
“They expelled George Santos, Mike Johnson did. He was speaker and oversaw George Santos being expelled,” she told the outlet. “Why isn’t he doing anything about Cory Mills?”
In his press conference, Johnson clarified that he didn’t vote to expel Santos, the New York Republican who in 2023 was found to have spent thousands of dollars in campaign funds on personal services and products, including Botox treatments and access to a website used primarily by sex workers.
Mills, meanwhile, has denied any wrongdoing. Still, Greene was quick to point out that “there’s clearly proof behind [Langston’s] accusations that a judge is issuing a restraining order.”
“So I would say to Speaker Johnson, this is a serious matter, and it needs to be taken seriously,” she told Axios.
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True to form, she hasn’t held back on Democrats, going so far as to blast them on X for having “created the healthcare crisis in America in 2010 by passing the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.”