Speaker Says Meeting With Rep. Greene ‘Not a Negotiation’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made a list of demands that she revealed publicly on May 7.

Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 21, 2024; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) outside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on March 13, 2024. Alex Wong, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

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.