MTG's revolt against Trump comes as she feels 'especially burned' by White House: report
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been increasingly critical of her own party, breaking with them at key moments and even chastising them this month for having no plan to extend health care subsidies for millions of people. It turns out there might be a personal grudge driving at least part of all this, reported NBC News on Wednesday.
"While Greene has been a solo operator in the past, her recent behavior has surprised even some people who are close to her," reported Melanie Zanona, Ryan Nobles, and Kyle Stewart. "She tried on the role of 'team player' for a while, especially when former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was in charge. But she has grown increasingly disillusioned with politics and her own party, and she felt especially burned after the White House talked her out of running for the Senate, according to four Republican sources familiar with the matter."
This reporting comes as Greene, infamous for pushing QAnon-linked conspiracy theories about Jewish space lasers before her election, faces outrage from far-right activists, like Trump confidante Laura Loomer, over her recent unreliability in backing MAGA on certain issues.
Greene seriously entertained the idea of challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, but President Donald Trump's inner circle dissuaded her from it with polling that showed she would lose catastrophically. Shortly after, she proclaimed she wouldn't be running because the Senate is too dysfunctional for her to make any difference there.
For her part, Greene vehemently denied that her recent voting pattern has anything to do with a vendetta over the Senate debacle, insisting that the choice not to run for Senate was hers and hers alone.
“I don’t want to serve in that institution. Look at them. They’re literally the reason why the government is shut down right now,” said Greene. “I think all good things go to die in the Senate, and I certainly don’t want to go there. But I think those are just attacks to try to marginalize me or try to sweep me off, so to speak. And I really don’t care.”