It’s been one of the most surprising subplots of the second Trump presidency: That Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), once one of Trump’s most loyal figures in Congress, appears to have broken with the president.
No, she’s not becoming a liberal or a Democrat, but Greene does appear to have significant ideological disagreements with the president- and unlike most Republican members of Congress, she doesn’t seem eager to keep her mouth shut about it.
Per NBC News, the disagreement appears to have begun when the White House discouraged Greene from running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.
But while Greene backed down from the Senate run, “that didn’t mean the firebrand Republican was going to back down from other fights she felt were worth waging — including, or perhaps especially, with her own party.”
In recent months, Trump called at least two senior Republicans to ask, “What’s going on with Marjorie?”
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And Greene has several different issues with which she disagrees with the president.
“She was critical of the Trump administration’s strikes on Iran, referred to the situation in Gaza as a “genocide,” signed her name to an effort to force a House vote to require the Justice Department to release its files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case and, most recently, sided with Democrats in calling for an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies amid the government shutdown fight,” NBC said.
Greene isn’t really getting to Trump’s left or right; she’s just simply more populist and conspiratorial than even Trump is. A sometime believer in QAnon conspiracy theories, Greene is considerably invested in the Epstein issue and the idea of hidden pedophile cabals, and less inclined to remain in line behind Trump.
“I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be,” Greene told NBC in an interview. “I serve in Congress. We’re a separate branch of the government, and I’m not elected by the president. I’m not elected by anyone that works in the White House. I’m elected by my district. That’s who I work for, and I got elected without the president’s endorsement, and, you know, I think that has served me really well.”
Greene also, per the report, was disappointed that she was not chosen for a position in the Trump Administration.
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