Overview
- In her first appearance on ABC’s The View, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed House Speaker Mike Johnson for the idle House during the shutdown, said she is forgoing her paycheck, and called for furloughed workers to receive back pay.
- She urged extending Affordable Care Act premium tax credits set to expire Dec. 31, said Republicans failed to craft a plan, and recounted yelling at Johnson on a GOP conference call over the issue.
- Greene pressed for release of Jeffrey Epstein–related records, arguing that powerful men appear protected and framing the demand as centered on justice for victims.
- She distanced herself from President Trump on several points, criticizing his endorsement of Andrew Cuomo for New York mayor and voicing opposition to regime-change wars and certain Israeli actions, while saying she still “loves” Trump.
- Recasting her image, Greene repudiated QAnon and called Washington’s standoff a “pissing contest” among “weak Republican men,” as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned her motives by calling it a “revenge tour.”