Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ditched her usual media suspects and appeared live on CNN Thursday to rip her own party for the government shutdown, now in its second week, and their failure to present a fix to the cost of healthcare.
Speaking with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, Marge decried “wearing political party team jerseys,” but refused to blame Trump, instead pointing fingers at GOP leaders Mike Johnson and John Thune.
“I‘m not putting the blame on the president, I‘m actually putting the blame on the speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate,” Greene said. “This should not be happening.”
I myself can tell you my apartment here in Washington, D.C., the electricity bill is $100 more than it was last year, because you can look at your own bill and look at at costs prices have not come down. That is a reality. People’s wages have not gone up. That’s another reality.
And so Americans are continuing to have a very difficult time getting by. And I’ll go a step further. I’m a mom. And so when it comes to what is affecting my adult children’s lives, who are 22, 26 and 28, I’m going to be 1,000% fighting for them over any politician in any party. And I can tell you right now that generation, they are barely making it and they’re very hopeless for their future.