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MTG Suggests GOP Leadership Is Sexist

Georgia congresswoman argues Mike Johnson sidelines strong women

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is publicly clashing with GOP leadership again—this time taking aim at what she calls a pattern of "weak" Republican men in Congress. Greene, who's lately been sparring with House Speaker Mike Johnson over the handling of the government shutdown , accuses him and...

Greene Points Finger at GOP Leaders Over Shutdown

Republican breaks with party on shutdown and other key issues

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again challenging her own party's leadership, this time pointing fingers at top Republicans for the ongoing government shutdown. Speaking Thursday morning on CNN , the Georgia Republican made it clear she's not blaming the president. Instead, she singled out House Speaker Mike...

Dems Get an Unlikely ObamaCare Ally in MTG

Republican congresswoman pushes to extend subsidies, warning of spiking insurance premiums

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, known for her staunch conservative views, broke with GOP orthodoxy this week by urging action to extend ObamaCare subsidies—aligning herself, at least on this issue, with Democrats, per the AP . In a lengthy post on X , Greene acknowledged her general opposition to the Affordable...

Loomer Finds New Targets Among Trump's Allies

Podcaster says she's the most America First of all

(Newser) - Laura Loomer, known as a fierce defender of President Trump's agenda, is now setting her sights on fellow MAGA figures—igniting new battles within the movement she has championed. Her attacks are unsettling allies and reshaping the dynamics inside Trump's inner circle, the Wall Street Journal reports....

Greene Again Urges Split Between Red, Blue States

Congresswoman points to deep political divide and safety concerns

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reignited her call for a "national divorce," contending that political divisions in the US have grown too deep to bridge and warning that the country is "no longer safe for any of us." The congresswoman on Monday reiterated her previous...

MAGA Not Happy With Trump's Latest Announcement on China

Loyalists are torqued over president revealing he'll allow 600K Chinese students into US universities

(Newser) - President Trump seemingly caught his loyal conservative base off guard and sparked backlash by saying he'd allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities. That would be a departure for the Trump administration after it added new vetting for student visas, moved to block foreign enrollment at Harvard, and...

Israeli Official Charged With Soliciting a US Minor

Cybersecurity official Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was arrested in Las Vegas

(Newser) - An Israeli cybersecurity official accused of soliciting a 15-year-old girl in Las Vegas has left the US after he was bonded out of jail. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's questioned the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case , claimed the government had "release[d] a child...

MTG: 'Middle Class Is Becoming the Working Poor'

Georgia Republican has accused her party of turning its back on 'regular Americans'

(Newser) - Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's been feeling disillusioned with her party as of late, is now complaining that "the hard working middle class is becoming the working poor." On Saturday, she reposted a video —originally shared by the TikTok user "diannaallen5"—showing a...

MTG Urges Trump to Commute Santos' Sentence

Ex-congressman is serving 7 years for fraud, identity theft; Trump apparently hasn't ruled out commutation

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling on President Trump to commute the sentence of George Santos, the former New York congressman now serving a seven-year sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Greene, a vocal Trump ally, posted a letter to the Justice Department on X that argued...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Gaza Crisis 'Genocide'

She's the first Republican lawmaker to use the term for humanitarian crisis

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has broken ranks with fellow Republicans and called the humanitarian crisis in Gaza a genocide. "It's the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis,...

Greene: 'Dangling Bits of Red Meat No Longer Satisfies'

Trump supporters want 'the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else,' she says

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't name names in a post on X Monday morning, but Politico sees it as a clear warning to President Trump that his supporters won't stand by him if he fails to release more information on Jeffrey Epstein.
  • "If you tell the base
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Former VOA Employee Charged With Threatening Greene

Prosecutors say he threatened Republican and her family in calls from Voice of America headquarters

(Newser) - A former Voice of America employee threatened Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and members of her family in a series of calls made from the broadcaster's Washington, DC, headquarters, prosecutors say. Maryland resident Seth Jason, 64, was arrested Thursday, NBC News reports. Prosecutors say he made eight threatening calls...

Greene Pushes Back as Trump Shifts on Ukraine Weapons Plan

Georgia congresswoman says new plan to speed up deliveries breaks key 'America First' promise

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is sounding the alarm over President Trump's latest plan to accelerate weapons deliveries to Ukraine, warning that it violates the anti-interventionist promises she and other Republicans made to voters. In an interview on Monday with the New York Times , Greene insisted that Trump's...

Greene Wants to Prohibit 'Weather Modification'

Experts take issue with the legislation's logic

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has said that "they" can control the weather, said she plans to introduce a bill to make what she calls "dangerous and deadly" weather modification a felony. "I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or...

Trump on Regime Change Idea: 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN'

Even as advisers stress nuclear program is the focus

(Newser) - Even as President Trump's national security team spent Sunday emphasizing that the US is targeting only Iran's nuclear program, not aiming to topple its government, Trump's own Truth Social post Sunday night complicated that message: "If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN...

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Trump, Tucker Carlson Spat Illustrates a Bigger Debate

Pundit says president has lost sight of 'America First' ideals with support of Israel against Iran

(Newser) - President Trump and Tucker Carlson are having a public fight about the Iran-Israel conflict, and the Hill sees it as a "microcosm" of a dispute within MAGA about "America First" principles.
  • Carlson has been loudly criticizing Israel's preemptive strike and warning that the US shouldn't get
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Greene: I Would Have Voted No If I Knew What Was in Bill

Leading some critics to suggest she maybe should have read all of it first

(Newser) - Marjorie Taylor Greene apparently admitted to not reading all of President Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" before voting for it in the House of Representatives. "Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to...

MTG: I'm Not Running Against Jon Ossoff

GOP congresswoman from Georgia says she's not interested in serving in a Senate that 'doesn't work'

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Friday she won't challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia's 2026 Senate race. The decision, made public in a post on X , comes amid concerns from some Republicans that Greene's divisive brand would hurt the party's chances to reclaim the...

MTG Suggests Trump Is Being Manipulated

'They think they can manipulate the president, but you can't manipulate the base'

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is not happy with the direction of the Trump administration, warning people "in the president's ear" are "lying to him." The Georgia Republican appeared on Steve Bannon's War Room on Monday and expanded on an X post from over the weekend,...

Stun Guns Used on Protesters at MTG's Town Hall

3 protesters arrested at Marjorie Taylor Greene event

(Newser) - Three protesters were arrested Tuesday at a town hall held by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and two of them were also tased amid what the New York Times describes as "chaos." The first man was dragged out of the room after he stood up to heckle Greene just...

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