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Meeting With Rep. Greene Was Not a ‘Negotiation,’ Speaker Says by Joseph Lord, Stacy Robinson – US Politics News

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that his two-and-a-half hour meeting with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on May 6 was “not a negotiation.”
The two met in the speaker’s office ahead of an expected move by Ms. Greene to bring a motion to vacate against Mr. Johnson to the floor—a move that’s all but predestined to fail due to Democrats announcing their backing for the speaker.
“I take Marjorie’s ideas and Thomas’s and everybody else’s equally and we assess them on their own value, and where we can make improvements and changes,” Mr. Johnson said on May 7 about the May 6 meeting during the weekly Republican leadership press conference. He was referring to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)….

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