A Republican congressman had some harsh words for far-right members of his party as Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., and others threaten to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., over the passage of a foreign aid bill that will allocate billions to Ukraine’s war with Russian invaders.

In media appearances on Sunday and Monday, Greene emphasized her opposition to U.S. aid for Ukraine “while doing nothing, absolutely nothing to secure our border.” Johnson, she argued, had betrayed the Republican Party and voters. Republican votes against the aid in the House slightly outpaced votes in favor 112-101 as nearly every Democrat voted to send Ukraine funds. The Senate will take up the foreign aid bills this week.

“This is a speakership that is completely over with. It's only Mike Johnson is the one that’s trying to hang on to it and is in complete denial,” Greene said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn't do so he will be vacated.”

“It doesn't guarantee a Ukrainian victory, because everyone knows they're going to lose eventually, it just is a matter of when,” Greene later said on Monday on former Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s show. “Voters are so angry this time, but I'm really worried. I am really worried they're so angry, they're not going to give us the majority back in 2025. And this is why we absolutely have to hold Mike Johnson accountable.”

So far, two other hard-right members have endorsed Greene’s plan to introduce a motion to vacate: Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. While most Republicans in the House — as well as former President Donald Trump — seem satisfied with Johnson’s leadership for now, it takes just one member of Congress to trigger the vote to oust him.

“The stock and Mike Johnson has gone way up. I think the respect for him has gone way up, because he did the right thing, irrespective of his job,” said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul, R-Texas, on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday. “When the motion to vacate is threatened every week in the Congress, that is being abused. And I think we need to fix that.”

It’s the second time in the last seven months a Republican speaker has found himself in the crosshairs of the most extreme members of his party. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., became the first speaker to be removed by a House vote in U.S. history in October, plunging the chamber into chaos and leaving it without a leader for over three weeks. 

On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, insulted and derided Greene, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and others who have revolted against Johnson as House Republicans attempt to keep Congress functional and fight to return to Washington next year with their majority intact.

“Look, the House is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson is going to be just fine,” Gonzales said. “It's my absolute honor to be in Congress. But I serve with some real scumbags.”

The Texas Republican brought up sex trafficking allegations against Gaetz. Federal prosecutors decided not to bring charges after a multi-year investigation, but the House Ethics Committee is reportedly still investigating the matter. Responding to Gonzales on social media on Sunday, Gaetz said his colleague was lying and endorsed his primary opponent, far-right gun Youtuber and gun manufacturing company owner Brandon Herrera.

Gonzales noted some of his more extreme colleagues’ support for Herrera despite his history of adopting Nazi iconography, music and jokes on his YouTube channel with over three million subscribers. In one 2022 video, Herrera held a submachine gun used in Nazi Germany and referred to it as “Hitler’s street sweeper” and  “the original ghetto blaster.” Jews in Nazi-occupied countries were rounded up into ghettos, where “the vast majority of ghetto inhabitants died from disease, starvation, shooting, or deportation to killing centers,” according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“[Virginia Rep.] Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they're walking around with white hoods in the daytime,” Gonzales said, referencing the uniform of the Ku Klux Klan.

Gaetz, who led the charge to oust McCarthy, has not specifically backed the motion to vacate proposed by Greene, which would trigger a vote of the whole House on Johnson’s speakership. Late last week he expressed deep frustrations with Johnson, but argued Republicans’ slim majority would make a motion to vacate too risky and just a handful of GOP defections could empower a Democratic speaker instead.

Though Johnson holds just a five seat majority -- which may grow slimmer with the impending retirement of Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., and an April 30 special election in a New York district expected to go Democratic -- Democrats in the House have indicated they may be willing to save his job, a courtesy they did not extend to McCarthy. 

“I disagree with Speaker Johnson many issues and I've been very critical of him but he did the right thing here and he deserves to keep his job till the end of this term,” said progressive and Biden ally Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., on “This Week” on Sunday, adding he expects House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to return to Congress in 2025 with a majority.

For his part, Jeffries hadn’t made a final call as of last week on what he will direct his members to do. But he showed little interest in aligning with Greene’s goals.

"Moscow Marjorie Taylor Greene, Massie and Gosar are quite a group,” Jeffries said at a Friday press conference. “I’m sure that will play some role in our conversation.”

On Bannon’s show, Greene encouraged Trump supporters to call Republican House members and urge them to support her promise to introduce a motion to vacate.

“They need max pressure to get on board with this because this train is coming,” she said. “It is coming. It hasn’t made it to the station yet but it’s coming and it’s going to get there soon.”