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JUST IN: Adored MAGA Congresswoman Betrays Trump In Jarring CNN Interview
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blamed the ongoing government shutdown on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) before criticizing President Donald Trump’s economic policies in an interview with CNN on Thursday.
“I’ve been vocal saying, you know, you can use the nuclear option in the Senate. This doesn’t have to be a shutdown, but what we have to do is we have to work for the American people. And our country is so divided right now. We see it all the time in every single way. It’s divided in what I would say very dangerous ways,” the congresswoman said. “And we saw that with the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, which has upset so many people across the board.”
Greene went on to endorse the Democratic Party’s shutdown demands, which mainly hinge on an extension of Obama-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) premiums that are set to expire. Republicans in the House passed a “clean” spending bill that would fund the government through late November, while Democrats have held out for ACA tax credit extensions, as well as billions of dollars in additional spending on legislative items like taxpayer-funded healthcare for non-citizens, among other things.
Just three Democrats, Senators Fetterman (R-PA), Cortez Masto (D-NV) and King (I-ME), the latter of whom caucuses with Democrats, have voted in favor of ending the shutdown. All Republican Senators with the exception of Rand Paul (R-KY) have done the same.
“Look, when it comes to hearing from senior citizens or my own friends and neighbors and my own family members and people that voted for me, and they’re just saying, Marjorie, we just really want somebody to do something about health insurance premiums,” Greene told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“We really want our government and our leaders to actually focus on our country for a change and fix our problems. That is the message I constantly hear from my district. And I’m a representative. I don’t have to be a cheerleader for my party,” the congresswoman continued. “I have to represent my district, because those are the people that hired me and sent me here. And I myself, I agree with them. And I’m pretty much over the, it’s just drama constantly on TV. No offense, because you guys are on television. But that’s all that we see in American politics now.”
Greene went on to paint a grim picture of the American economy despite months of cooling inflation, claiming that President Trump and congressional Republicans are not focusing on “America First policies” to their detriment.
“Yeah, and on that note, are you concerned about the cost of living?” Greene was asked, to which she replied, “Very.”
“That the President Trump said he would lower,” CNN’s Pamela Brown chimed in.
“Inflation crushed people in the past four and a half years, and the costs have not come down. I myself can tell you my apartment here in Washington, D.C., the electricity bill is $100 more than it was last year, because you can look at your own bill and look at costs. Prices have not come down. That that is a reality,” Greene said.
“People’s wages have not gone up. That’s another reality. And so Americans are continuing to have a very difficult time getting by. And I’ll go a step further. I’m a mom. And so when it comes to what is affecting my adult children’s lives who are 22, 26 and 28, I’m going to be 1 ,000 % fighting for them over any politician and any party. And I can tell you right now, that generation, they are barely making it. And they’re very hopeless for their future.”
Greene’s comments were met with praise from a number of prominent Democrats and left-wing political commentators.
“Today I have retweeted Candace Owens and MTG. And now I am retweeting Matt Gaetz,” said far-left political commentator Mehdi Hasan. “What’s happening to the world?”
