After the announcement from former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that he planned on resigning from his seat at the end of this month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) seemed to offer a rather dark remark.
“Hopefully no one dies,” Greene wrote in a post on social media about the shrinking Republican lead in the House.
The remark comes days after the House voted to expel Republican Rep. George Santos (N.Y.) after a scathing report showed his inappropriate actions while in office and several lies he used to win his seat.
“Now in 2024, we will have a 1 seat majority in the House of Representatives,” Greene said. “Congratulations Freedom Caucus for one and 105 Rep who expel our own for the other. I can assure you Republican voters didn’t give us the majority to crash the ship.”
Greene was referring to last Friday’s vote, where 105 Republicans joined almost every Democrat in the House to expel Santos from his seat. She also made reference to the House Freedom Caucus’s push to remove McCarthy from the speakership.
McCarthy became the first speaker ousted from the position in October, and on Wednesday, he shared in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal that he would be departing from Congress by the end of the year.
McCarthy said he would look “to serve America in new ways. I know my work is only getting started.”
Ohio Rep. Bill Johnson (R) has also said he plans on stepping down in the first quarter of 2024 to take a new job as the president of Youngstown State University, The Hill reported.
After McCarthy resigns, the GOP will hold an even slimmer majority, only allowing for three defections on any party-line legislation they want to get passed.