A House Republican is not ruling out supporting a motion to remove Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) as speaker.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday that while it is not his first option to remove Speaker Johnson, his displeasure over a current spending deal is forcing him to consider the option.
On Monday evening, Roy expressed his displeasure with the spending deal, which he says uses budget “gimmicks” to increase some spending above the statutory caps set in the Fiscal Responsibility Act debt limit bill last year.
“I wish Speaker Johnson weren't doing this. So, I'm very disappointed. And hopefully we can try to figure out what we can do to change it in the next few days,” Roy said.
“I think there's going to be some real conversations this week about what we need to do going forward,” Roy later added.
Collins then asked whether that could include making a move to oust Johnson from the Speakership teeing up another round of voting as occurred in October with Johnson's predecessor, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
“That's not the road I prefer,” Roy responded. “I didn't prefer to go down that road with Speaker McCarthy. We need to figure out how to get this all done together. But it isn't good, and there's a lot of my colleagues who are pretty frustrated about it, so we'll see what happens this week.”
“You said you don't prefer it, but you did not say no to that, I should note,” Collins said.
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