Marjorie Taylor Greene Is 'Sick' of Republicans

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republican voters are "sick and tired" of Republicans while speaking with reporters on Monday.

While another potential partial government shutdown continues to loom over Congress as lawmakers have until November 17 to reach a consensus on how to fund the government, growing concerns are arising on whether lawmakers—and particularly a small group of hardline Republicans—are capable of compromise. Senior Republicans in both chambers believe a continuing resolution, or CR, is unavoidable.

Newly elected speaker Mike Johnson said on Fox News on Sunday he is committed to passing 12 appropriations bills, further showing his support to hardline Republicans and their demands that the House pass the full dozen 2024 appropriations bills individually before shifting to a CR. According to Reuters, hardliners, some of whom orchestrated Kevin McCarthy's ousting for passing a CR with Democratic support, are pushing for spending cuts and tighter border security as conditions they would accept in a new stopgap measure.

While speaking to CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju outside Capitol Hill on Monday, Greene spoke on the state of the Republican party amid the looming deadline while also seemingly taking aim at the divide within the party, which has been seen since the ousting of McCarthy.

"Republican voters across the country are sick and tired of Republicans because they never do anything to hold this government accountable. Republicans go out on the campaign trail, they go on TV, and post on social media and say all this garbage that they are going to fight it, stop it," Greene said.

"I feel like many of the American people that think Republicans in Congress completely fail them, I feel the same way. And I'm a Republican member of Congress."

Newsweek has reached out to Greene via email for comment.

Greene's response comes after she made moves to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, in October over her response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American member of Congress, has been a vocal critic of Israel's response to Hamas' surprise attack on October 7, which was the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israel subsequently launched its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza.

According to Israeli officials, 1,400 people in Israel have been killed as of Monday, the Associated Press reported, while over 10,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to officials from the health ministry in Gaza, the AP said.

In response to Greene's efforts, Tlaib wrote on X, formerly Twitter, "Marjorie Taylor Greene's unhinged resolution is deeply Islamophobic and attacks peaceful Jewish anti-war advocates. I am proud to stand in solidarity with Jewish peace advocates calling for a ceasefire and an end to the violence."

Despite efforts by Representative Becca Balint, a freshman Vermont Democrat, to introduce a resolution aiming to censure Greene in the House of Representatives, the Georgia Republican reintroduced the censure resolution on Monday.

"Today, I reintroduced my privileged resolution to CENSURE Rashida Tlaib for antisemitism, spreading Pro-Hamas propaganda, and inciting an illegal occupation in the Capitol complex. The House will vote this week to hold her accountable for her actions," Greene wrote on X.

Meanwhile, Congress will continue to work "in good faith" toward its November 17 appropriations deadline to avert a government shutdown, according to Johnson.

"We worked through the weekend on a stopgap measure," Johnson said on Fox News. "We recognize that we may not get all the appropriations bills done by this deadline of Nov. 17 but we're going to continue in good faith."