{"id":14991,"date":"2025-10-29T20:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-are-growing-tired-of-marjorie-taylor-greenes-shutdown-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:01:39","slug":"republicans-are-growing-tired-of-marjorie-taylor-greenes-shutdown-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-are-growing-tired-of-marjorie-taylor-greenes-shutdown-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are growing tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s shutdown attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is on the warpath against her own party\u2019s handling of the government shutdown. And her fellow Republicans are increasingly calling her out.<\/p>\n

The firebrand three-term lawmaker, long an ally of President Donald Trump, has distanced herself from Republican leadership in recent months. And as the shutdown drags on, Greene\u2019s loud \u2014 and usually lonely \u2014 dissent risks fracturing Republicans\u2019 efforts to present a united front and pressure Democrats into caving on funding the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t spend much time worrying about [what] Marjorie is saying,\u201d Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

While a few other Republicans have criticized the party\u2019s approach<\/a> to the shutdown, Greene has been the loudest and most prominent detractor. She\u2019s focused on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies \u2014 which Democrats have made their central demand \u2014 and accused her party of ignoring the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!\u201d she wrote in a social media post in early October<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Republicans have continually indicated they\u2019ll negotiate on health care premiums only after the shutdown. House Speaker Mike Johnson has tried to brush off Greene\u2019s attacks and defuse the tension<\/a>, telling reporters that GOP-led conversations on health care are happening in other channels.<\/p>\n

\u201cBless her heart, that\u2019s an absurd statement,\u201d he told CNN<\/a> when asked last week to comment on Greene\u2019s assertion that the Republicans were \u201csitting on the sidelines\u201d on health care.<\/p>\n

Greene has only ramped up her critiques of the speaker and his team, with the shutdown now well into its fourth week, writing on X on Tuesday that Johnson<\/a> \u201csaid he\u2019s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on BLN late Tuesday called on Greene to put her own health care plan forward \u2014 and to stop attacking her party.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like her, she came out to Ohio a few times,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s certainly able to write a bill herself. Like if this is something she\u2019s passionate about, put pen to paper, write a bill. Present an option. Don\u2019t just criticize what other people are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greene\u2019s disagreement with Republicans stretches beyond the shutdown. She broke party ranks by calling Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza a genocide<\/a>in July and was one of just a handful of Republicans to sign a discharge petition<\/a> from Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) that would force a floor vote on the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

Greene\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the party, Cruz said, is moving on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuddenly, Marjorie is for massive government spending and taxes and she\u2019s for open borders and amnesty. Ok fine,\u201d he said Wednesday. \u201cThat is not where the American people are. Where the American people are, is real simple. We\u2019re on day 29 of the stupidest shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is on the warpath against her own party\u2019s handling of the government shutdown. And her fellow Republicans are increasingly calling her out. The firebrand three-term lawmaker, long an ally of President Donald Trump, has distanced herself from Republican leadership in recent months. And as the shutdown drags on, Greene\u2019s loud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}