‘We're not going to let her take out the speaker’: Moskowitz rips Greene again

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on social-media bias on Capitol Hill Feb. 8, 2023. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

Democrats might not be sold on the idea of saving Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson from an attempted ouster. But at least one isn’t too keen on the idea of helping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) remove him.

“Well, I mean, look, obviously we’ll wait for our Leader Jeffries to figure out that solution,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said Sunday during an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” referencing Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

“But I’ve said this before, and I think there are other members who feel the same way, the idea of allowing Marjorie Taylor Greene, someone who literally, you know, would let the world burn, you know, with her isolationist foreign policy who has talked about states seceding from the union, right?” Moskowitz, not one to miss a chance to make a dig at his Republican nemesis, continued.

Hours after the House passed a $95 billion foreign aid package delivering billions to Ukraine, as well as Israel and Taiwan, Greene doubled down on the threats she made leading up to the vote to work to remove Johnson if he worked with Democrats to pass another Ukraine aid bill.

“Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing and resign,” the Georgia Republican said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo” last week. “If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated.”

But Moskowitz, who has made it a habit of gleefully trolling the Republican hardliner, said Democrats likely won’t let it happen.

“The idea of letting [Greene] sit in the people’s House and the well of Congress, giving a speech, removing any speaker and having that powerful moment, there is just no way Democrats are going to let her do that. I’m not going to let her do that. We won’t even let her name a post office. We’re not going to let her take out the speaker,” Moskowitz said.

A spokesperson for Greene didn’t not immediately respond to a request for comment.