Before meeting with President Mike Johnson on Tuesday, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared his list of demands for the president amid his efforts to oust him from the House’s top job.
Greene’s four requests – which she said were “simple and easy for Mike Johnson to follow” in a post on — include a return to the “Hastert rule,” meaning that no legislation is put to a vote without the support of the majority of the majority party; more funding for Ukraine; cancel special prosecutor’s investigation into former president Donald Trump; and avoid a government shutdown before the election by passing a continuing resolution to automatically implement a 1% spending cut.
“These are not unreasonable requests,” Greene said of her requests as she headed into her Tuesday meeting with Johnson. “These are the right things to do for our conference, and our Republican president – who has rammed through the Democratic agenda – should be able to do them since we are a Republican-controlled Congress.”
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Johnson and Green are expected to meet a second time Tuesday afternoon after Johnson said he had “a long and constructive meeting” with Greene and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Monday. The meeting, which lasted nearly two hours, came as Greene said she would force a vote to remove Johnson from the leadership post this week.
Johnson said his series of meetings with Greene and Massie did not constitute “a negotiation.”
“This is not a negotiation at all. What we are trying to do and my job is to improve every day the processes, the procedures, our policy preferences or the legislation and to make sure that we can build the right consensus to bring everyone together,” Johnson said at the GOP’s weekly press conference Tuesday.
Asked if he would cancel the special counsel’s investigation into Trump, as Greene had requested, Johnson did not rule out the possibility.
“We’re looking at it very carefully because I think the problem has reached a crescendo,” Johnson said.
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For the first time publicly, Johnson said he intends to remain the leader of the House Republican Conference in the future.
“I intend to lead this conference in the future, and the most important thing we have to do now is to govern the country well, to show the American people that we are – and that is what we did,” Johnson said.
Asked Monday by ABC News if she planned to move forward with a motion to rescind, Greene said she “will have more information” after Tuesday’s meeting.
The Georgia congresswoman said last week that she was pressing ahead with her ouster efforts despite reluctance from many Republicans and Democrats’ declaration that they would intervene to help save Johnson. Trump also weighed in on Greene’s decision to oust Johnson.
Trump spoke privately with Greene over the weekend and urged her to abandon her efforts to oust Johnson, a source close to the president confirmed to ABC News. During their discussion, Trump told Greene that the party needed to be unified, according to the source.
The former president’s team considered how best to show support for Johnson. Trump brought Johnson on stage at the RNC’s spring retirement luncheon this weekend and praised him “for his leadership and work in the House of Representatives,” emphasizing “the need for party unity, d “a collaboration and an expansion of the parliamentary majority of the Republican Party”, according to the campaign.
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Greene criticized Johnson for working with Democrats on several key pieces of legislation, including keeping the government open and providing foreign aid. Johnson fired back, saying he is a lifelong Republican but must do his job to serve the entire House with a razor-thin Republican majority.
“I would really like to advance our conservative politics more on a daily basis. But the reality is that we are working with the smallest majority in American history, by a margin of one vote,” Johnson said.
ABC News’ Arthur Jones II and Sarah Beth Hensley contributed to this report.
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