Summary
- Marjorie Taylor Greene warns GOP will lose House if cost of living ignored.
- She criticizes party for inaction on rising food, healthcare expenses.
- Greene links voter dissatisfaction to economic struggles of everyday Americans.
The MAGA politician also called her party's repeated votes on their short-term spending bill "a complete failure" and questioned why its leadership has refused to engage in healthcare reform negotiations with Democrats, who have made negotiating insurance premium concessions a central tenet.
“I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck,”
Greene told Semafor as the U.S. government remains mired in shutdown after almost three weeks, with no end to the deadlock in sight and federal workers going unpaid.
Alluding to voters struggling with record-high credit card debit, she said:
“They’ll definitely be going into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank account.”
“That is something I’m really disgusted with,”
she said.
“It’s an America Last strategy, and I don’t know whose strategy that is, but I don’t think it’s a good one.”
Despite her many betrayals of her party this year, especially with reference to House Speaker Mike Johnson and the continued demands for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Greene maintains her allegiance to President Donald Trump.
“Any president, whether it’s a Democrat or Republican president, they’re in a cone of information, the information is siloed, and it’s coming from their advisers,”
she told Semafor.
“Everyone keeps saying I’ve changed, and I’m saying, ‘No, I haven’t changed,’ I’m staying focused on America First, and I’m urging my party to get back to America First.
I actually ran for Congress in 2020 angry with Republicans in Congress – which is pretty much where I’m at now again… I’m mad about a lot of things and I’m not going to stop talking.”
A populist who previously proudly sported a red “Trump Was Right About Everything” baseball cap and made repeated attempts to impeach Joe Biden, her unexpected independent streak has also caused her to split from the GOP on foreign policy issues related to Gaza and Ukraine.
Her latest reversal, which calls into question the notion that the Republican Party is totally subject to Trump's whims, was so dramatic that The Atlanta Journal Constitution published an article with the headline, "I was wrong about Marjorie Taylor Greene."
“Even if you don’t agree with Greene on everything – or even most things – you have to admire her willingness in this moment to say what is true, even when other Republicans refuse to,”
wrote columnist Patricia Murphy.
“Maybe it’s career suicide, or maybe it’s leadership.”
Pundits attempting to guess Greene’s motives have suggested that she might be seeking to position herself as the next true leader of Trump’s “America First” movement or seek revenge for the president blocking her from running for the Senate in order to maintain their party’s slim majority in the House of Representatives.
Jeff Timmer of the anti-Trump conservative group the Lincoln Project recently told The Guardian her rebellion “can be attributed more to a woman scorned than the evolution of human goodness in Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
He added:
“They didn’t want her to run; she’s getting a pound of flesh. ‘You wanted to put your thumb on me and thought I’d just play the loyal soldier? Well, I’m going to defy you on some key things like the Epstein files or healthcare and Medicaid.’”
What policy proposals Republicans could adopt to lower costs?
Democratic policy prefers to lower costs and concentrate on several crucial areas. The House GOP's budget bill includes measures similar as repealing or phasing out clean energy duty credits to reduce overall taxes, adding the standard deduction temporarily, and conforming the child duty credit. They also aim to lower healthcare decorations by expanding high threat pools and reforming liability laws.
GOP plans include removing or circumscribing certain duty deductions like mortgage interest, barring the estate duty, and reforming energy programs to boost domestic product and lower energy prices.
Further proposals involve reducing nonsupervisory burdens on energy, and other requests to drop product costs and increase force, which can help lower consumer prices.