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Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, who has received a committee assignment after two years of banishment by Democrats, made a startling revelation as the new Republican majority has taken over the U.S. House of Representatives.
The feisty Georgia Republican said that unbeknownst to most GOP voters, members of the party have moved further to the right following four years’ worth of left-wing partisan control of the chamber by Democrats.
“I have a vision of a Republican Party that truly serves the American people and our many great needs,” she began, adding: “Our House GOP conference all suffered together so much in the past two years, and many House Republicans have changed and moved to the right, but the base doesn’t know yet. Here is an example: The Senate Republicans are another story & the 18 Senators that voted for the Democrats’ $1.7 trillion omnimonster are the Uniparty, 36% of Republican Senators. While only 4% of House Republicans voted for it, 2 of them are traitors (Cheney & Kinzinger),” she said in a series of tweets.
“The base will no longer tolerate Uniparty Republicans, which are viewed as America Last, and I have been making that clear inside our conference while the base has been making it loud & clear on the outside,” Taylor Greene wrote. “This must continue in order to keep our conference moving right. It should also be pointed out Republicans won the House majority, but not the Senate. That’s because many House Republicans fought Biden & the Democrat’s agenda while the McConnell Republican Senators helped pass Biden’s agenda. Voting records & election results are proof.”
Greene also recently urged her colleagues in the House to trust and have faith in House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a move that surprised some of her colleagues.
During an interview on Fox News’ “MediaBuzz,” Greene spoke with host Howard Kurtz about the drama surrounding 20 House Republicans refusing to vote for McCarthy to become the speaker until he made a slew of concessions. After McCarthy secured the nomination, Greene called on Republicans to get to work after the nomination fight.
Her comments on Fox News are striking given her support of McCarthy drew ire from Republicans and even set up a few major fights from those who held out for several days.
Below is a transcript of the conversation:
KURTZ: “Now, you told — a few months ago, you told ‘New York Times Magazine’ writer Robert Draper for his book about McCarthy, you said, ‘I think that to be the best Speaker…’ — we can put this up here — ‘…of the House and to please the base, he’s going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway. If he doesn’t, they’re going to be very unhappy about it. That’s not in any way a threat, that’s reality.’ So could it be said — and this has gone on in the history of our republic — that you’d already cut your deal, that if McCarthy became Speaker, you wouldn’t be treated as some fringe character, but you would have influence?”
TAYLOR GREENE: “That’s not at all true. As a matter of fact, I don’t have any committee assignments yet. I’ve only submitted the same form that every other member gets to submit, asking for committees, and I don’t have a promise. I’ve already heard some people saying what they’re getting because that was, honestly, what a lot of the negotiations in the end were all about. I have no promise. I have no deal. I only fully supported — I’ve said this all along — the agenda that’s laid out there, it’s even on Kevin McCarthy’s website, what we can accomplish in the Republican conference, and the reason why I told that to Robert Draper is because I have the support of base, and I keep telling everyone here in Washington this is what the American people want. And it was easy for me to get onboard with this agenda because I see the conference come around the same things and —“
KURTZ: “Yeah. But just to deal with one bit of history, the Democrats stripped you of your committee assignments. I think that was raw politics. But in fairness, didn’t you also say around that period that you’d been a follower of QAnon conspiracy theories, then you had rethought this and you were no longer influenced by the group?”
TAYLOR GREENE: “Well, like a lot of people today, I had easily gotten sucked into some of the things I’d seen on the internet, but that was dealt with quickly early on. I never campaigned on those things. That was not something I believed in, that’s not what I ran for Congress on, so those are so far in the past. I came into Congress and, you know, Kevin and I, we had some public confrontations — not necessarily confrontations, but said things about one another. But I did something that I wish more members of Congress would do. I started talking with Kevin McCarthy. I went and met with him and got to know him better and got to understand where he sees the conference going, what he sees our agenda and what we should do, and that’s why I came around a lot sooner than 20 of my Freedom Caucus colleagues. But, listen, here’s the great news, I’m glad they came around this past week. So what you saw them do, learn to trust him and have faith in the plan going forward, I was able to do that over the past year. But I hope more of my colleagues do that.”
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