Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie shared on Tuesday that he will co-sponsor a resolution seeking to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson from office, becoming the first member of the party to join Representative from Georgia's 14th district Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion to oust the lower congressional chamber's leader.
"He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker," Massie wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "There's only one person right now who could stop us from going into what happened last fall, and that's Mike Johnson," the Republican representative added.
The closed-door meeting between Massie and the House speaker came the day after Johnson proposed a plan that could secure funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as one focusing on national security, by dividing them into four separate bills.
