Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is questioning her place within the Republican Occasion after discovering herself at odds with others within the GOP — together with President Trump — over a number of points.
The remarks — made throughout an interview with the Every day Mail — comes after Greene mentioned Israel is conducting a “genocide” in Gaza; vocally pushed for the discharge of the paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein, regardless of Trump urgent to maneuver on from the story; and criticized the U.S. strike on nuclear services in Iran, amongst different positions.
Her distinction with many within the GOP is prompting her to query her perch within the get together.
“I don’t know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I’m kind of not relating to Republican Party as much anymore,” Greene mentioned. “I don’t know which one it is.”
“I think the Republican Party has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans,” she added.
The feedback from Greene are the most recent flash level in her timeline in Washington, which has seen her go from a pariah within the GOP to a detailed ally of the president, whereas at instances being a thorn within the facet of Home GOP management.
Greene mentioned she believes the Republican Occasion is drifting again to its “neocon” methods, with the individuals on the high of the group, the “good ole boys,” pushing towards the MAGA agenda.
Throughout her dialog with the Every day Mail, Greene advocated for stopping overseas assist, persevering with utilizing the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) to slash the federal authorities, ceasing rising the nationwide debt and being conscious of rising inflation.
“Like, what happened all those issues? You know that I don’t know what the hell happened with the Republican Party. I really don’t,” she mentioned.
“But I’ll tell you one thing, the course that it’s on, I don’t want to have anything to do with it, and I, I just don’t care anymore,” she added.
Maybe one of the putting breaks between Greene and Trump was over the discharge of the Epstein information, a debate that has inundated the get together for weeks. When the president was attempting to show the web page on the Epstein saga, Greene stored beating the drum, at one level warning that holding the information below wraps would danger his assist among the many base.
“If you tell the base of people, who support you, of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail, and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every enemy of The People,” Greene wrote on the social platform X. “If not. The base will turn and there’s no going back. Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else.”
The pair was additionally at odds over the U.S.’s strike on Iran, which the president touted as a hit and Greene reacted to by saying there was: “a complete bait and switch to please the neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts, and neocon tv personalities that MAGA hates and who were NEVER TRUMPERS!”
On overseas coverage, Greene mentioned “genocide,” a “humanitarian crisis” and “starvation” have been occurring in Gaza — Trump additionally mentioned hunger was taking place — and she or he was one among two Home Republicans to vote to chop off some assist to Israel.
Greene informed the Every day Mail she believed there are “other women in our party that are really sick and tired of the way men treat Republican women,” naming Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), whom Trump nominated to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations earlier than he withdrew her identify amid fears concerning the GOP’s slim Home majority.
Greene accused Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of being guilty for the state of affairs.
“I think there’s other women, Republican women — and I’m just giving my opinion here — who are really sick and tired of them,” she mentioned. “And the one that really got shafted was Elise Stefanik.”
“I mean, she got screwed by Mike Johnson, and she got screwed by the White House. I’m not blaming Trump, particularly. I’m blaming the people in the White House,” she added.
Greene acknowledged the island she is on with regards to a number of the positions she has staked out, telling the Every day Mail: “I’m going alone right now on the issues that I’m speaking about.”
However she recommended that she doesn’t thoughts plowing forward solo, arguing that her reelection in her district has been due to her efforts and no person else.
“I had to beat eight men and had to really whoop one in the primary, and I did, and the primary is everything in my district, and I did that by myself,” Greene mentioned. “I didn’t do that with anybody’s help. Not President Trump, Mike Johnson.”
