A House committee hearing grew heated on Wednesday when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) denied she regrets voting for President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act — and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) reminded her she said she regretted it just one day prior.
The bill, which is currently under debate in the Senate, extends President Donald Trump's tax cuts from 2017, partially through deficit spending and partially through a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid, food stamps, and green energy credits.
"It's also interesting because Chairwoman Greene, I understand, now regrets voting for this bill, as she wrote yesterday," said Garcia. "Is that correct, Chairwoman Greene?"
"The bill actually destroys what you guys voted for for the past four years," said Greene. "And I'm proud to have voted for that bill to increase border security and deport all the illegals you let in the country."
"Actually, ma'am ... yesterday, you actually said that you regret actually voting for the bill. You posted after Elon's tweet that you didn't know certain provisions were in the bill, and that you would have voted no if you had known. And so obviously you didn't do a thorough review of the bill. And I'm not surprised, of course, that Republicans in this Congress are now going back and forth on the bill."
Garcia is referring to a lengthy post from Greene in which she proclaimed that she vehemently opposes the provision in OBBBA that bars states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years, and would have opposed the bill if she had known that provision existed.
"We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous," wrote Greene at the time. "This needs to be stripped out in the Senate."
