A MAGA lawmaker delivered a grim warning for her party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
“I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck,” Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Semafor on Monday. “They’ll definitely be going into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank account.”
Greene, a MAGA loyalist who has recently criticized the Trump administration and her own party amid the government shutdown, pointed to Americans' main concern right now: the rising cost of living.
“Everyone keeps saying I’ve changed, and I’m saying, ‘No, I haven’t changed,’” Greene told Semafor. “I’m staying focused on America First, and I’m urging my party to get back to America First.”
She argues that the Republicans have lost their original vision, specifically not recognizing how health care costs will impact people in the United States. Greene says the short-term spending bill "is a complete failure, and that is something I’m really disgusted with."
“It’s an America Last strategy, and I don’t know whose strategy that is, but I don’t think it’s a good one," she said.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the White House have continued to blame Democrats for the now 20-day shutdown.
“Any negative consequences felt by the American people have been caused purely by the Democrats — they can end the shut down any time they want,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Semafor.
Johnson has refused to reopen the House of Representatives to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ). Grijalva has said Johnson may be blocking her to prevent the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Democrats have speculated that Johnson is trying to prevent Grijalva from signing on to a discharge petition circulated by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to force a vote on releasing evidence from Epstein's sex trafficking case, and Grijalva agreed that's possible.