GOP Rep. Greene explodes on Speaker Johnson, White House over handling of government shutdown
A Republican member of Congress who was once one of President Donald Trump's most outspoken supporters has now seemingly turned on her party's leadership in the House and Senate, as well as the president's team in the White House.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reportedly clashed with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a Tuesday conference call over the way that GOP leaders and the Trump White House have handled the ongoing government shutdown, according to Fox News.
The confrontation followed several instances on social media and elsewhere over the past few weeks of Greene very vocally breaking with her party and siding with the Democratic opposition on a range of issues that included health insurance subsidies, food stamp program funding, and the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, among other things.
Greene vs. Johnson
On Tuesday's conference call with House Republicans, Rep. Greene called out Speaker Johnson for having "wasted" the party's slim majority by keeping the House out of session since it passed the funding bill in late September, which Senate Democrats have repeatedly refused to vote on, resulting in the prolonged government shutdown.
"You guys need to get out of Washington, D.C., and go back to your districts and talk to real people, because real people are pissed," Greene reportedly told her party's leaders, even as she decried the standing order for members to remain in their home districts and not return yet to D.C. "They expect us to do our legislative constitutional duty and not take marching orders from the political team at the White House."
She even appeared to lash out against Trump for how his team has handled the shutdown situation thus far, and proclaimed, "Even the president is losing support."
For his part, Johnson defended the strategies employed by Republican leaders in the House and Senate during the shutdown, and insisted that they and the White House were "working around the clock" behind the scenes to end the Democrat-caused stalemate.
He also chastised Greene for her highly critical social media posts that align more with Democrats than Republicans, and bluntly asked, "How does that help us, Marjorie?"
"No respect" for House leadership's actions
Jake Sherman, of Punchbowl News, reported on X that Rep. Greene, during her blow-up on the House GOP conference call, said that she was "tired of people listening to the White House political staff," and that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) "needs to use the nuclear option and reopen the government. (In other words, abolish the filibuster and pass a funding bill)."
Greene shared Sherman's post just moments later and wrote, "You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders."
"And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans," she added. "Johnson said he’s 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. Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!"
Senate Dems and GOP could solve shutdown problem immediately
Just a few hours earlier, the Georgia congresswoman said in a lengthy X post, "Again as I’ve been saying from the beginning, the political drama and government shutdown can easily and quickly be resolved by both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate. The Democrats can simply vote YES to fund the government OR the Republicans can use the nuclear option and fund the government without a single Democrat vote."
"Every single one of us has a duty to responsibly govern," she continued. "We are elected by the American people, not our political parties, and our loyalty should belong to our constituents. I am 100% opposed to this political game of chicken as it serves no one and hurts everyone."
"With the Senate refusing to use the nuclear option to reopen and move forward and the Speaker refusing bring the House back to work, our hard earned Republican majority is being wasted and the America First agenda the people voted for is sitting on the sidelines," Greene added.






