Trey Gowdy heard four words that are about to have all hell breaking loose

Conservatives in Congress are furious.

Mike Johnson surrendered to Joe Biden in another spending fight.

And now Trey Gowdy heard four words that are about to have all hell breaking loose.

Johnson defends himself against a motion to vacate

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a motion to vacate the chair and oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) after he agreed to all of President Joe Biden’s demands in a $1.2 trillion spending package that fully funded his open borders agenda.

Johnson received a friendly forum to push back on former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy’s Fox News show.

Gowdy took the side of the Washington D.C. “Swamp” and asked him how a motion to vacate the chair would help Republicans grow their majority in November.

“How does it help the GOP grow the majority to be talking about a motion to vacate, instead of talking about the border or inflation or other issues that are better for the GOP?” Gowdy asked. “How does this motion to vacate help win back the majority or win a bigger majority?”

Gowdy should have asked how Republicans continually waving the white flag of surrender in every fight with Biden and rubber stamping his big-spending, open-borders agenda would convince Americans to keep Republicans in power.

Johnson claimed Greene holding him accountable distracted “from our mission.”

“I don’t think it does,” Johnson shot back. “And I think all of my other Republican colleagues recognize this is a distraction from our mission. Again, the mission is to save the Republic. And the only way we can do that is if we grow the House majority, win the Senate, and win the White House. So, we don’t need any dissension right now.”

But if Johnson wanted to “save the Republic,” a good start would have been holding the line in the government funding fight until Biden agreed to seal the border.

Johnson infuriates conservatives

But he wasn’t finished.

Johnson tried to make it seem like he was upset with the deal he cut and that he shared Greene’s frustration.

“Marjorie’s a friend. She’s very frustrated about, for example, the last appropriations bills. Guess what? So am I. As we discussed Trey, these are not the perfect pieces of legislation that you and I and Marjorie would draft if we had the ability to do it differently. But with the smallest margin in U.S. history, we’re sometimes going to get legislation that we don’t like. And the Democrats know that when we don’t all stand together with our razor-thin majority that they have a better negotiation position. And that’s why we got some of the things we didn’t like,” Johnson stated.

Johnson tried to cast his surrender to Biden in heroic terms claiming he and his team “fought like warrior poets.”

“Now we fought like warrior poets to keep some of those Senate appropriations or some of those Senate earmarks out of the bill. And we were successful in getting a lot of the terrible stuff out, but a few of them made it through. And that’s what Marjorie’s upset about, and I am, too. But I want to talk with her about reforming the budgeting and spending process going forward. That’s what Republicans are for. That’s the transformational kind of changes that we can forge if we all stand together,” Johnson concluded.

Conservatives aren’t going to want to hear that at all.

Johnson – like former Republican Speakers Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and John Boehner – tucked tail at the first headline in the media accusing Republicans of wanting to shut the government down.

Instead of casting the fight as Joe Biden refusing to secure the border and smuggling millions of illegal aliens into America, he tapped out and handed him complete and total victory.

Speaker Mike Johnson calls MTG motion to vacate him a distraction from his mission to “save the Republic.” pic.twitter.com/c7TlRnaGba

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 1, 2024