WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., “can’t do this job” and should resign from his leadership position before he’s forced out.

Massie announced Tuesday that he’s co-sponsoring a resolution previously filed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., that could lead to Johnson’s removal.

The move comes after Johnson shared tentative plans to send aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan and voted against a warrant requirement for foreign surveillance legislation.

“There’s no red line,” Massie told Spectrum News. “There’s no straw that broke the camel’s back. I guess it’s just that he’s burned more political capital and I think he keeps putting himself in this position where he could get vacated on the floor, and I’m trying to avoid that scenario by getting him to resign.”

But Tuesday, Johnson said that’s not happening.

“I am not resigning, and it is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs,” Johnson said.

Massie’s Kentucky colleague, Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, posted his support for Johnson on social media, writing, “Americans elected Republicans to govern and lead, not to join a circular firing squad.”

Massie said the motion to vacate isn’t going away, and he’d rather have a “controlled changing of the guard” instead of the chaos that stretched on for weeks after Republicans ousted then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy in October without an agreement on a replacement.