Burgess Everett

You're seeing Republican women lash out directly at the speaker because he sidelines us and doesn't take us seriously.

So this was something that I noticed over the past few weeks.

Now, to be fair, there has been broad frustrations in the entire Republican conference, which we can certainly talk about.

But it was particularly notable that we were seeing some high-profile Republican women really speaking up and standing up against Speaker Mike Johnson, which we don't normally see.

So starting with Marjorie Taylor Greene, her complaints with Johnson are similar to what she's complaining about when it comes to Donald Trump.

I do believe at this time that Republicans will lose the midterms.

And I think that's unfortunate.

And I think economic populism is the way forward.

And unfortunately, I don't see the Republican Party embracing that.

She's extremely frustrated that they haven't been putting more bills on the floor that are actually related to some of the things that they campaigned on, particularly that affordability issue.

I don't think the president's team nor the speaker have told the president about the legislation that I've introduced, that actually much of it directly, literally,

aligns with the agenda that he campaigned on, I campaigned on in 2024.

Then there's Elise Stefanik.

She really raised some eyebrows when she went on the record with some of her criticisms in a Wall Street Journal interview.

And her criticisms with Johnson was about his political acumen.

And she says he's not a good strategist.

She said that if a vote were held today, she doesn't think he would be elected speaker again, which is a pretty bold statement coming from someone on Johnson's own leadership team.

For Anna Polina Luna, she's a little bit of a different case.

She's been advocating for specific pieces of bills or legislation that she wants to get to the floor.

And she believes that Mike Johnson has made promises behind closed doors and then not kept those promises when it comes to actually putting those bills on the floor.