Summary
- Marjorie
Taylor Greene expresses frustration with House GOP leadership. - Criticizes
repeated short-term spending votes as “complete failure.” - Disagrees
with strategy to keep government shutdown ongoing.
Members have continued to hold public events and news
conferences; the House has not engaged in official legislative work since its
last vote on September 19.
“The House should be in session working. We should be
finishing appropriations. Our committees should be working. We should be
passing bills that make President (Donald) Trump’s executive orders permanent.
I have no respect for the decision to refuse to work,”
Greene, a member of
Congress for the Southern state of Georgia, said on US social media company X.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized the House of
Representatives on Monday as the US government shutdown entered its twentieth
day. The House hasn’t taken a recorded vote since last month.
The Senate will meet again on Monday for its eleventh vote
on whether to move forward with a plan that was passed by the House that would
finance the government and end the current shutdown.
“It’s been over a month since the House of
Representatives even took a single roll call vote. That’s shameful, that’s
derelict. Government workers must work without getting paid. House Republicans
get paid without working,”
Schumer said on the Senate floor.
In each attempt thus far, the measure has fallen
short of the 60-vote threshold, and there is no sign that this time around the
result will be any different.
What specific demands Greene is making of House leadership?
She wants the House to reconvene and work on passing the 12
regular appropriations bills, rather than continuing the shutdown
or counting on short- term extensions. She believes this focused approach
would allow for proper policy and budget adaptations.
Greene supports some crucial popular demands,
especially an extension of expiring Obamacare premium subsidies
to help a sharp rise in health insurance costs, despite her general
opposition to Obamacare. She has blamed GOP leadership for not adequately
addressing this health insurance extremity.
She opposes the current shutdown strategy of
staying for senators to drop healthcare demands before continuing the
government. She urges engagement with senators to solve these issues while
continuing appropriations work.
