Marjorie Taylor Greene slams party and calls Republican men in Congress ‘weak’ | Marjorie Taylor Greene
Far-right American MP Marjorie Taylor Greene further distances herself from her Republican compatriots and accuses the men of her party of being “weak”.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Greene expressed her frustration with Republicans, signaling her new departure from her party’s political strategies as the government shutdown starting Oct. 1 entered its third week.
Greene has disagreed with some Republican strategies since campaigning for her seat representing Georgia’s 14th Congressional District a few years ago. She said Republicans are not aggressive enough to advance their agenda, even though they have controlled Congress and the White House since Donald Trump’s second presidency began in January.
In the Post interview, Greene highlighted her displeasure with her own party’s congressional leaders, particularly House Speaker Mike Johnson, amid the current government shutdown.
The Trump loyalist called on social media for the U.S. Senate to remove the 60-vote filibuster requirement to end the government shutdown in order to advance his spending bill. Johnson apparently told him “they can’t do it” even though “it’s math,” Greene told the Post.
Greene also sided with Democrats in their push to provide health care subsidies — a rare move for a Republican — which has been the sticking point at the center of negotiations between the two parties to end the government shutdown.
The Georgia representative has also pushed in recent months for more transparency regarding convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Alongside other Republican officials, including Thomas Massie as well as Trump loyalists Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace, Greene pushed for the U.S. Department of Justice to release all of its files detailing its handling of the Epstein case before his death in 2019.
Despite opposition from Johnson and Trump to the release of these records, Greene played a significant role in trying to force a vote on the issue.
Greene and her allies have failed to involve fellow Republicans in the fight to release the Epstein files, she told the Post, because “they don’t want to get yelled at by the president.”
“They don’t want to get yelled at by Johnson,” she said.
Similarly, Greene said Republican women were marginalized by party leadership, a claim rejected by other members of the GOP. She said Republican women have been unfairly treated by party leaders, including herself and New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. Greene called Johnson and other Republican leaders “weak” men.
“There are a lot of weak Republican men, and they are more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene noted. “So they’re always trying to marginalize strong Republican women who actually want to do something and be successful.” »
Stefanik, a Trump loyalist, was stripped of her nomination for ambassador to the United Nations in March after the president announced he needed her more in the House of Representatives. In turn, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz was named ambassador to the UN, despite a scandal in which he added a reporter to a private conversation with senior officials discussing military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
Stefanik “gets screwed” while Walz “gets rewarded,” Greene told the Post. “She’s a woman, so it was okay to do this to her in one way or another.”
