She ended the week Friday by backtracking on her public statements opposing the annual Pentagon policy bill and its support of Ukraine’s defense. Instead, she provided a crucial vote for the legislation in exchange for a seat at the table when House and Senate negotiators hammer out the differences between their respective versions of the legislation in the fall.
Well, that’s what we do here. We negotiate,” Greene told reporters after voting for the legislation Friday morning, 16 hours after telling them she would oppose it. “This is just moving the bill, which has so many good things in it, to the next phase — where I can actually have a bigger voice.”
That would be a fairly typical week for most members of Congress: wining and dining donors for political dollars and leveraging one’s vote to try to gain more influence.
For Greene, it was just one part of a most atypical week.
allies in the House Freedom Caucus, which is home to three dozen or so of the most hardened conservatives, effectively filed for political divorce from her.
She declined to say she had formally been ejected from the group. “I could care less about talking about this. I’m here to do a job, not talk about drama and gossip,” she told reporters Friday, adding, “You guys talk to them more than I do.”
To be sure, Greene’s evolution should not be considered a moderation of her ideology. Nor is she turning into a RINO, as hard-liners like to label “Republicans in name only.” Instead, these moves probably more reflect how much the Trump wing of the party is taking over as the Establishment it once ridiculed.
She still opposes any funding to support Ukraine’s defense against the Russian incursion. She still loudly defends those at the D.C. jail who were arrested over the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
She still campaigns with Trump, as she did July 1 by appearing with him in South Carolina to proclaim “God bless the Supreme Court” after its ruling against affirmative-action programs
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Rome Georgia sure loves its commie sympathizer..
Greene confronted Boebert on the House floor in an obviously heated conversation, admitting to reporters later that she called Boebert a “little b--ch” who tried to steal Greene’s impeachment thunder.
Style: Marjorie Taylor Greene called Lauren Boebert a . . . what?
All that attention and drama surrounding Greene proved politically beneficial. Until Trump became president, she had run a CrossFit gym
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