MTG won't support effort to rein in Trump despite public break on Iran strikes
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Punchbowl News on Monday that she won't be supporting congressional authorization for President Donald Trump's war against Iran.
Following U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, debate ignited in Congress's halls over the president’s authority to engage in military action without lawmakers' explicit approval. A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced War Powers Resolutions aiming to limit Trump’s ability to further strike Iran without their authorization.
While Greene has publicly opposed further U.S. military involvement in the country, she told Punchbowl News she does not support the effort to limit Trump's authority over potential new strikes.
Greene revealed she hadn't yet spoken to Trump over the matter, but she indicated her opposition in an X post Monday morning.
"I spent millions of my own money and TRAVELED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY campaigning for President Trump and his MAGA agenda and his promises," she wrote. "And Trump’s MAGA agenda included these key promises: NO MORE FOREIGN WARS. NO MORE REGIME CHANGE. WORLD PEACE. And THIS is what the people voted for. Only 6 months in and we are back into foreign wars, regime change, and world war 3. It feels like a complete bait and switch to please the neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts, and neocon tv personalities that MAGA hates and who were NEVER TRUMPERS!"
She also noted that Trump claimed "complete success," only to find out that the nuclear facilities were only "partially damaged" and "we don't know where their enriched uranium is."
Greene also told Punchbowl that there's a big difference between her and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who also attacked Trump's bombing of Iran. Massie, she said, is not MAGA brand, while her opposition is a result of her MAGA loyalty.
Greene also said she wants to completely cut off aid to Israel.
Greene told Steve Bannon's "War Room" that no one slept better after Trump bombed Iran.
She commented that the U.S. is now being threatened about "sleeper cells" on American soil, and that Americans living abroad are being told to shelter in place out of fear of retaliation.
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