U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Friday that Speaker Mike Johnson failed Republicans, and that “nothing good is coming” next.
Greene, a top ally to Donald Trump, took to X ahead of the weekend to weigh in on the ongoing government funding battle. Recently, Republican lawmakers have suggested the two failed votes on spending bills were avoidable errors.
Greene, who has floated Elon Musk as a potential replacement for Johnson, explained her motives for supporting Trump’s version of the bill.
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“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 Republican presidential candidate in history asked me to vote for it, so I did, gladly,” she wrote. “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.”
Greene concluded, “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.”