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'We will be in touch': MTG sends ominous threat to 'lying' PBS over Musk post

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) aimed Monday at the partially taxpayer-funded PBS News over its social media post about tech billionaire Elon Musk's inauguration gesture, which drew comparisons on social media to a Nazi salute.

Musk shook up social media after a speech he delivered to a cheering MAGA crowd at President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally. But it wasn’t the speech itself inside the Capitol One Arena that stunned political observers in the first hours of Trump’s new presidency – but the gesture he made at the conclusion that opened up a flood of reaction on social media.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Dems want to 'line us up in front of a firing squad and kill us'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she expects Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump again — and warned that members of the opposition party would "kill" Republicans with a firing squad if they could.

During an interview after Trump's inauguration on Monday, host Steve Bannon asked Greene about the possibility of a future impeachment.

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'Newson may be criminally responsible': MTG suggests CA gov may face charges over fires

A firebrand MAGA Republican said Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) may be "criminally responsible" for the raging wildfires near Los Angeles that so far have scorched more than 25,000 acres and left at least five people dead.

The fast-moving infernos have forced more than 80,000 to evacuate. The two largest fires in the area, the Palisades and Eaton fires, were zero percent contained as of Wednesday evening.

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'It’s our gulf': Marjorie Taylor Greene unveils new bill text to rename Gulf of Mexico

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took little time in following through on her vow to draw up legislation to make President-elect Donald Trump's latest antic a reality.

Trump said at a Mar-a-Lago news conference Tuesday he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America."

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'Stupid questions!' Marjorie Taylor Greene pitches fit at reporters remembering J6

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed at what she said were "stupid questions" from reporters who she argued should be "held accountable" over their coverage of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

On the fourth anniversary of the riot, Greene expressed frustration to Real America's Voice host Beau Davidson about reporters who had asked her about the occasion.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene floats making J6 a national holiday

WASHINGTON — With the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack coming this Monday, steel fencing is now once again wrapping the Capitol, which has had some Democrats in tears and many Capitol Police officers reliving the horror they endured that day.

But the GOP now controls both sides of the Capitol, and the party’s hoping to change the debate.

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'Let it shut down': Marjorie Taylor Greene warns 'nothing good is coming' in funding fight

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Friday that Speaker Mike Johnson failed Republicans, and that "nothing good is coming" next.

Greene, a top ally to Donald Trump, took to X ahead of the weekend to weigh in on the ongoing government funding battle. Recently, Republican lawmakers have suggested the two failed votes on spending bills were avoidable errors.

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'Extremely tenuous': Capitol Hill reporter highlights a 'worrying sign for Mike Johnson'

House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) appears to be on the brink of losing his gavel when the next Congress is sworn in next month.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed a bipartisan government funding bill Wednesday, and Johnson has seemingly lost the support of many Republicans to hold onto his job, which senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Mike Lee (R-UT) suggested should go to Musk, the South Africa-born tech billionaire who the president-elect tapped to slash trillions from the federal budget.

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'Spill the tea': Jasmine Crockett throws Marjorie Taylor Greene threat back in GOP's face

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) bluff when she threatened to expose wrongdoing by other lawmakers.

Greene previously reacted to notion that the House Ethics Committee would potentially release a purportedly incriminating report on ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz, who had been Donald Trump's first nominee for attorney general, and expose its findings on his alleged sexual misconduct with minors and alleged use of illicit drugs.

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'You guys suck': Irate MTG snatches Trump's Social Security promise and throws it on floor

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) literally threw President-elect Donald Trump's promise not to cut Social Security on the floor as she met with the House DOGE Caucus for the first time on Tuesday.

As Greene was heading into a meeting with the caucus that will give recommendations to Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, she was confronted by advocate Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works.

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'We're all in danger!' Marjorie Taylor Greene unloads profane freak out over N.J. drones

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) warned that everyone in the United States was "in danger" after unidentified drones were spotted flying over New Jersey.

In an angry rant on Thursday, Greene demanded the resignation of Pentagon officials for not revealing the source of drones that were recently seen in the Garden State.

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MTG fears suspected CEO assassin could fuel 'push' from the left for socialized medicine

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday said she believes that the brazen assassination of UnitedHealth's CEO could be the beginning of a political movement that sparks calls for socialized medicine.

The MAGA lawmaker’s latest conspiracy theory came during an appearance on the far-right Real America’s Voice platform, where she said past political movements have traditionally included tactics like marches, riots and storming politicians' offices.

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'Heartsick': Woman dies in crash with bomb squad unit responding to threat on MTG's home

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says a woman in Georgia was killed on Monday in a car accident involving a police officer who was responding to a bomb threat at her home.

The Rome Police Department bomb squad responded to Greene’s home following a threat that her office later said in a statement was “traced to a Russian IP address.” The crash was confirmed by police, who said the officer was not critically injured, according to Atlanta news station WXIA-TV.

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