Marjorie Taylor Greene Criticizes ‘Selfish’ Republicans for Opposing McCarthy: ‘Stop Lying to the Base’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is laying out the reasons she believes her colleagues should back House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for speaker.

In a lengthy tweet thread on Tuesday, Greene wrote, “Being a conservative and antiestablishment, I used to criticize 👤Kevin McCarthy a lot. In fact, I’ve criticized many people and still do because I’m so incredibly frustrated with what a failure our government is to our people. I firmly believe it’s our job to fix it.”

“Republicans will never fix anything when we say Never someone just because we don’t like them. To the Democrat’s credit, they don’t do that. And I’ve watched them pass incredibly horrible things the past two years, and the country is suffering and will suffer worse,” she continued.

While the Georgia congresswoman praised Democrats for their “amazing ability to work together in-spite of their differences,” she called Republicans the “Party of Never” which is “ruining everything.”

“It’s also lying to the base about a ‘plan’ that doesn’t exist, no candidate, no way of working that I refuse to be part of and silent about,” she added.

She went on:

I’m disappointed my friends would mislead the base and that’s a big reason why I’m speaking out. The Speaker is elected inside our conference that unfortunately for us conservatives is filled with too many moderates and it’s IMPOSSIBLE for a conservative to get 218 votes.

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