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Rep. Kinzinger Slams GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: She Is ‘Not a Republican’

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) is slamming Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), saying she should not “have the privilege of any committees.” Greene has come under fire after a report revealed that past Facebook posts…

Madison SummersJan 28, 20213 min read

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Kinzinger also said during the CNN interview that the Republican Party “needs to take a step back,” adding, “This is not the party I joined.”

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said during an MSNBC interview late Wednesday, “This term, there are legitimate white supremacist sympathizers that sit at the heart and at the core of the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives.”

She added, “It increasingly seems, unfortunately, that, in the House Republican caucus, Kevin McCarthy answers to these QAnon members of Congress, not the other way around, and that is something that frankly needs to be said.” The New York Democrat pointed to Greene.

“There are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence. There’s no consequences for racism, no consequences for misogyny, no consequences for insurrection. And no consequences means that they condone it,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “It means that that silence is acceptance.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) spokesperson told Axios that the lawmaker believes Greene’s past comments are “deeply disturbing” and he “plans to have a conversation with the Congresswoman about them.”