"Almost all of my colleagues know that Mike Johnson is not equipped to be Speaker, but nobody wants to say the emperor has no clothes," Massie said.

Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) has spent much of his dozen years in Congress waging lonely political crusades while working as a behind-the-scenes tactician in fights over Republican leadership and spending.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R, Ky.) has cast the first Republican vote against Mike Johnson. Massie said ahead of the session Friday that he planned to vote against the Louisiana Republican, instead voting for Rep.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.), the one Republican who has said he would definitely oppose Mike Johnson (R., La.) for speaker, vowed there is nothing that could change his mind. Asked on One America News—by former Rep.

"You can start cutting off my fingers," Kentucky U.S. Rep Thomas Massie said. "I am not voting for Mike Johnson.”

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was vocally critical of Mike Johnson ahead of Friday's vote to reelect him House speaker.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only House Republican to vote against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) while two other GOP lawmakers ultimately flipped their votes after initially backing others,

“You can pull all my fingernails out, you can shove bamboo up in them, you can start cutting off my finger, I am not voting for Mike Johnson,” Massie told former representative Matt Gaetz on his new primetime show on the conservative One America News Network (OAN).

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) did not deserve a second term in leadership and would cost the GOP its majority in the lower chamber if reelected. “Johnson is

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie became the lone GOP representative to withhold his vote for Mike Johnson in his bid to be reelected as House Speaker on Friday.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) affirmed his decision to not support Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) in the Speaker’s race, even if his colleague Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) would land a top spot on the House Rules Committee.

Northern Kentucky's representative to Congress, Thomas Massie, says that he will not support Mike Johnson for speaker on Friday when the 119th Congress convenes.