For weeks, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene promised that if the House approved a package of military aid for Ukraine, she would rally fellow Republicans to get rid of House Speaker Mike Johnson.

But as $95 billion in aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan was receiving strong bipartisan support Tuesday in the Senate, the congresswoman from Georgia had little to show for her attacks on GOP leaders, even as she continued her calls for Johnson’s resignation.

“It’s baffling hearing the establishment complain that it’s too much drama, too hard and too risky to go through another speaker race,” Greene said.

Greene finds herself in a very unusual political place this week — at odds with former President Donald Trump, who didn’t stand in the way of these foreign aid bills and refused to join her crusade to get rid of Johnson.

“I think he’s a very good person,” Trump said of Johnson in a radio interview Monday, noting the very thin Republican majority in the U.S. House. “It’s not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do.”

But that line from Trump didn’t wash with one of Greene’s House allies.

“The weakest argument in defense of Speaker Johnson is ‘it’s a razor-thin majority; you can’t get everything you want,’ ” said U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of two GOP lawmakers supporting Greene’s call for Johnson to resign.

As senators returned Tuesday to vote on the aid bills, it was obvious just how isolated Greene is inside her own party

“She’s a total waste of time,” U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told CNN, as GOP senators stood by the House speaker’s decision to allow a vote on aid for Ukraine.

“This is one of those gut-check issues,” said U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. “It wouldn’t have happened without Mike.”

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