House Speaker Mike Johnson said Green should be condemned by the house for his actions.
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was removed from his House room Tuesday night after disrupting President Donald Trump’s joint speech to Congress.
Green spoke his wand to the president about four minutes after his speech, shaking, but his words quickly came to mind: “America! United States!” from a Republican lawmaker.
Amidst the ruckus, Trump was inserted by House Speaker Mike Johnson (r-la.), slamming a small giveaway, and trying to continue ahead, reading the house rules aloud.
“Members are instructed to maintain courtesy and to stop any further confusion within the house. That’s your warning,” Johnson told Green. “Members are engaged in deliberate decoration violations and the chair is ready to order the sergeant to restore the order to the joint session.”
The lawmakers stood up with applause. Johnson then instructed Green to take his seat.
The House of Representatives remained standing before yelling at Trump that he “has no obligation to cut Medicaid.”
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This led Johnson to summon Sgt. with weapons to restore order and remove him.
As Green was escorted out of the room, he continued to swing his cane with the Trumps, and the lawmaker chanted, “Hey, hey, goodbye.”
Once the greens were removed, Johnson reminded lawmakers that they must maintain and maintain courtesy in the house. He then asked Trump to continue his speech, and the president continued to speak.
Johnson then said Green should be criticized by the house.
“He made history in awful ways, and I hope he enjoys it,” Johnson told reporters. “If they want 77-year-old Rep. Heckling to be their face of resistance, if it’s Democrats, then that’s it, but we wouldn’t tolerate it on the floor of our house.”
Green says “it’s worth it.”
Green says he has no regrets about his public protest and is willing to accept the punishment caused by his actions at home.
The Democrat said after speaking to reporters after being fired, “it’s worth letting people know that there are some of us who are facing this president.”
“The president said he had an obligation, and I made it clear that he had no mandate to cut Medicaid,” he said of his comments during Trump’s speech.
Medicaid is a healthcare program used by 80 million Americans.
Johnson and the GOP leadership argue that Medicaid programs are made solely to eradicate fraud and corruption.
Rep. Al Greene screams that President Donald Trump will be working on a joint Congress meeting in Congress on March 4, 2025. Win McNamee/AP
Green also warned against cuts to Medicare, seniors programs and Social Security retirement programs.
“This is about people being punished for losing their health care,” Green said. “This is the richest country in the world, and healthcare is trying to become wealth care and we can’t make it happen.”
Greene called for Trump’s bounce each during his first term in office, but says he’s working on a new bounce each article against the president.
During Trump’s first term, then-speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) quietly tore the president’s speech after he finished delivering it.
The Epoch Times contacted the White House for comments.
Joseph Road and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
