Anti-McCarthy GOP rebels distance themselves from push to oust Speaker Johnson

The House GOP rebels who ousted ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy successful the autumn are present hesitant to clasp the caller propulsion to footwear existent House Speaker Mike Johnson from the job.

"I don't deliberation it's a bully idea. The support’s not there. I'm gladsome they're getting it retired of the way, but waiting different week conscionable keeps it successful the press," Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said connected Wednesday.

Burchett spoke with Fox News Digital hours aft Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., announced she would unit a House-wide ballot connected ousting Johnson, R-La., sometime adjacent week via a procedural determination known arsenic a question to vacate the chair. 

She filed her solution successful precocious March, but she is expected to enactment it arsenic "privileged" adjacent week – meaning House leaders volition person 2 legislative days to either telephone a ballot connected the measurement itself oregon archetypal effort to termination it via a ballot to array the resolution.

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GOP rebels who ousted ex-House Speaker McCarthy similar Reps. Tim Burchett, left, and Matt Gaetz, right, are showing small appetite to oust existent House Speaker Mike Johnson. (Getty Images)

However, beyond uncovering impassioned enactment successful Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., Greene's propulsion has mostly fallen level wrong the House GOP. That includes the seven remaining House Republicans retired of the archetypal 8 who voted with Democrats to footwear McCarthy, R-Calif., successful aboriginal October.

When asked what was antithetic astir the concern now, Burchett told reporters the rebels were "100% definite that we'd enactment a Republican in."

"You've got Republicans successful districts [where] Democrats won the White House by 15 points. So successful an predetermination year, thing tin happen," helium said.

Additionally, portion astir each the rebels expressed disappointment successful their content that Johnson has not fought hard capable for House GOP priorities since winning the gavel successful precocious October, astir were hesitant to accidental if they wanted to spell done different midterm talker predetermination – portion others outright rejected the idea.

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"I don't enactment the question to vacate. I'm inactive recovering from the archetypal one," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. told Fox News Digital connected Monday.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who spearheaded McCarthy's ouster, said, "I’ll astir apt enactment a question to array it."

When asked what helium thought of Greene announcing she would unit the ballot adjacent week, Gaetz told Fox News Digital, "I deliberation everybody's got the play to deliberation astir it."

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie announced they would determination to unit a ballot connected House Speaker Mike Johnson's ouster adjacent week. (Getty Images)

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., indicated past month that helium wanted a caller House GOP person but pointed retired that Republicans had a thinner bulk than erstwhile helium and the others forced retired McCarthy. He has not indicated thing astir changing his presumption since.

"I deliberation there’s a batch of dissatisfaction wrong the Republican Party. I deliberation the talker guarantees himself that determination volition beryllium a contention for the speaker, I hope, successful November. I deliberation that’s the omniscient people erstwhile you’re sitting astatine a 216 to 213 margin," Good told reporters.

Similarly, some Reps. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., expressed displeasure with Johnson's enactment but told CNN and The Hill respectively that a Johnson ouster is not apt close now.

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Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., who is retiring astatine the extremity of this year, would not springiness reporters an denotation of his reasoning earlier this week.

"It’s my knowing that adjacent if she tries to determination it, we’ve got, I don't know, 48 hours to fig retired what’s going to happen," Rosendale said. "So I conjecture I person plentifulness of clip to deliberation astir it."

When asked astir their lukewarm reception to her push, Greene told Fox News Digital, "I deliberation that's the question you'll person to inquire them."

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie were emphatically against ousting ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"But if they basal by the words and the statements that they made erstwhile they voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership aft helium fundamentally did thing wrong, I would deliberation that they would beryllium the archetypal ones moving to ballot to vacate Mike Johnson," Greene said.

In comments to reporters alongside Greene, however, Massie said aboriginal connected Wednesday evening that helium anticipates much GOP enactment adjacent week.

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"I'll spell retired connected a limb and foretell there'll beryllium capable votes to amusement that Mike Johnson can't beryllium elected talker successful January due to the fact that though helium tin get Democrat votes connected a question to table, it's not a question to array ballot connected January 3rd," Massie said, referring to closed-door House GOP enactment elections.

Both Massie and Greene were emphatically against toppling McCarthy past year.

The eighth Republican who voted to oust McCarthy, erstwhile Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., near the House successful March earlier the extremity of his term.