When this spring, the White House dissuaded the member of the House of Representatives of Marjori Taylor Green, to nominate the Senate from Georgia, Green, the old faithful ally of President Donald Trump, agreed to abandon his ambitions on the state scale.
But this did not mean that the ardent republican was about to abandon other battles, which, in her opinion, was worthwhile, including or, possibly, especially with her own party.
Over the past six months, Green has made a splash in Washington with its public gap with Trump and the Republican Party on a number of high-profile issues and at the same time subjected a number of sharp attacks on its Republican colleagues. She criticized the administration of Trump. Blows on IranReferring to The situation is in gas as “genocide”, signed her name under make a vote in the House of Representatives demand from the Ministry of Justice to release the files related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein, and recently sided with the democrats in Call to extend the subsidies of the Law on Available Medical Service Against the background of the struggle for the suspension of the government.
“I am not some kind of blind slave of the president, and I do not think that someone should be them,” Green said in an interview. “I work in the congress. We are a separate branch of power, and the president does not choose me. None of those who work in the White House are elected. My district chooses me. That's who I work for, and I was elected without the support of the president, and I think this served me very good service.”
Green won her first primaries in the House of Representatives in Georgia in 2020 without Trump's support before she received his support in a general election in her dark red district.
“Thus, I get independence as a Republican,” she added, “and I think that it will help [Trump] It is best when he has people who are ready to be honest with him, and not just tell him what, in their opinion, he wants to hear. ”
Green denies that the collapse of her ambitions on the state’s scale has anything to do with her recent desire for independence, stating that this was always her brand. She also criticized the Senate, led by the Republicans, insisting that she was never particularly interested in work there, although she publicly spoke about her desire to run.
“I do not want to serve in this institution. Look at them. They are literally the reason that the government is now closed,” said Green. “I think that all the good things die in the Senate, and of course I do not want to go there. But I think that it’s just attacks to try to marginalize me or try to shift me, so to speak. And I really do not care.”
Although in the past, Green was a solo operator, her recent behavior surprised even some people close to her. For some time she tried on the role of a “team player”, especially when the leader was the former speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California. But she was more and more disappointed in politics and her party, and she felt especially strongly burned after the White House dissuaded her from participating in the elections to the Senate, according to four republican sources familiar with this issue.
One of those sources close to Green, which openly He expressed interest To become the Minister of Internal Security – she said that she was also disappointed that she did not receive a job in the Trump administration. Another source, which is also close to Green and recently talked to her, added that she feels “ignored” by the leadership of the Republican Party and the White House.
If Green's goal was to attract Trump's attention, then it seems that it worked. In recent months, he called at least two high -ranking Republicans and asked: “What is happening with Marjorie?” According to two sources of the Republican Party, directly familiar with conversations.
Green, who may more agree with the Maga base than any other member of the Congress, says that she still supports Trump and maintains close ties with him. But her relationship with his employees is a completely different story.
The White House unsuccessfully tried to put pressure on Green so that she would remove her name from the petition about the dismissal of Epstein. Green was especially indignant when she read how the anonymous representative of the White House told reporters that support for the petition would be regarded as a “hostile act”. Then she spoke on the Real America's Voice channel and called this official a “coward”.
Some Republicans considered another sign of a change in Green's attitude to the political scene: last month she was invited to the grand opening of Trump.Pink Garden club“In the White House, but she refused, according to a source familiar with this issue. It was a type of Trump's exclusive event, which Green usually released her schedule. In her office they said that she was not in the w’s wrets.
Green also has stretched relations with the speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisian, to whom she has no loyalty and whom she unsuccessfully tried to remove from his post last year because of his support for assistance to Ukraine.
Unlike McCarthy, who strategically attracted Green to his ranks to better control her behavior, Johnson did not make such attempts. Green was an outcast when she first came to Congress because of her incendiary rhetoric, so she wanted to prove herself and play in the inner game. But now she more and more accepts her status of an outsider.
“I did not run for a Congress as a republican from the establishment, and when I ran for Congress, I was never even at a meeting of the Republican Party. So I did not climb the service ladder,” Grin said. “And I think that many people do not understand this. I am in many ways an average American. I do not look at things through party polls and theses; I look at real problems and analyze them in this way … So I think that it helps me to have a different point of view.”
IN Call to the extension As for the subsidies of the law on affordable medical care, Green brought her own children as an example of how people are injured if the Republicans allow them to leave. Green said that she was “disgusting” such a prospect, although she did not like the basic law, and she criticized the leadership of the Republican Party for the lack of a plan to solve this problem.
Democrats hastened to use her comments to reinforce their arguments. The leader of the minority in the Senate Chuck Schumer, Dn.Y., quoted them in the Senate, and the leader of the minority in the House of representatives Hakim Jeffris, Dn.y. even called it Social networks About this topic on the poster and took it to a press conference.
At his press conference on Tuesday, Johnson rejected the criticism of the Green's approach to Obamacare subsidies, saying that it was not informed on this topic.
“Congressman Green is not part of the jurisdiction committees that are involved in these specialized issues, and she probably is not aware of some of them,” he said.
But Green did not move in the face of criticism from the party leadership.
“The reality is that they never talk about it, and this committee, which works, say, on medical insurance and industry, this does not happen overnight. [secure facility]; This is not a big secret, ”said Green, adding that Johnson had not yet contacted her to discuss her fears.
“What upset me is that my party does not have a decision,” she said. “We are not talking about this often, but this is a reality for the Americans, and I do not think that we can ignore it. I want, I really want to fix it.”
Now, when she refused to participate in the elections to the Senate next year and was lost to the post in the Trump administration, it is unclear what Green is waiting for in the political future. In the first six months of the year, she raised 1.3 million dollars, which is a little less than 1.9 million dollars, which she earned for the same moment in 2023, and she has only $ 641,000 in her hands in cash.
When asked whether she intends to run for a re -election to the House of Representatives next year, Green replied: “Oh, of course. I haven’t done anything like it. I, honestly, don’t even think about it. Right now I’m just taking it why we didn’t return to work?”
