Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) touted her 100% conservative rating but said on Friday that it is worth risking to help President-elect Donald Trump begin his term with a clean slate on Jan. 20, free from a lingering budget mess. “I am one of the most conservative members of Congress and last night I voted for a bill that ordinarily I would never vote for,” she wrote on X. “However, the man that took a bullet to the face and won the presidential election with 312 electoral college votes, and the most votes of any Republican presidential candidate in history asked me to vote for it, so I did, gladly,” she added.
Greene’s statement served as a warning to House Republicans ahead of Friday’s planned vote on a revised budget proposal aimed at keeping the government open but adhering to conservative principles. If the plan includes unacceptable spending to secure Democratic support, she and other Republicans have indicated they would rather see a partial government shutdown.
She then went on to criticize House Speaker Mike Johnson for appearing to try and cut a backroom deal with Democrats for a much larger bill filled with outrageous Democrat priorities: “After Johnson completely failed us by not including us in the planning of this year end’s government funding and then dumped a 1,500 page CRomnibus on us Tuesday night with little time to read it and got caught, in his scheme with Schumer, McConnell, and Hakeem, by all the great American people here on X along with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, it was President Trump‘s team, our incoming Vice President JD Vance, and then President Trump himself that dove in, in the midnight hour, and came up with a CR that solves the debt ceiling problem for President Trump, and even more importantly, helped hurricane victims, farmers, and would keep the government open.”
She added: “They shouldn’t have had to do that but they did. After that CR failed last night, I can assure you nothing good is coming behind it. But what is worse in my opinion is that we gave up a critical opportunity to unite and pass our own CR sending it to Senate with a powerful message to Schumer and the Dems that come hell or high water we are going to deliver for Pres Trump and the people who elected him. After this let it shut down. I’ll only vote to pay our military, border patrol, and key federal law enforcement, and the very basics to keep things running until Jan 20, 2025. House Republicans, we better figure out how to get this done next year. And that will require changes.”
I am one of the most conservative members of Congress and last night I voted for a bill that ordinarily I would never vote for.
However, the man that took a bullet to the face and won the presidential election with 312 electoral college votes, and the most votes of any… pic.twitter.com/vKSZG0Nyyy
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) December 20, 2024
Trump himself has said that the current budget situation is President Joe Biden’s problem to solve. Trump made his comment in a post on Truth Social after the House failed to pass a continuing resolution (CR) that he backed on Thursday. The revamped bill was put forward after Trump — with the help of his ally, Elon Musk — pushed back against a 1,547-page stopgap bill that had been negotiated between the GOP-led House and Democrat-controlled Senate on Tuesday night. “If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP,’” the president-elect posted on Friday morning. “This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!”
Johnson (R-LA) said that the House is set to vote on another plan to avoid a government shutdown on Friday, The Hill reported. Congress has until midnight on Friday to strike up a deal before government funding runs out. “Yeah, yeah, we have a plan,” Johnson said. “We’re expecting votes this morning, so you all stay tuned. We’ve got a plan.”
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