Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses House Republicans of doing exactly what she does all the time

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says she and other Republican voters are “sick and tired” of Republicans for failing to serve voters while holding the government accountable. Meanwhile, she recently re-introduced a resolution to censure her Democratic colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), even though the same resolution failed just last week and has little chance of passing the closely split House.

“Republican voters across the country are sick and tired of Republicans because they never do anything to hold this government accountable,” Greene recently told CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju, after Raju asked her about Republican efforts to avoid the upcoming November 17 government shutdown.

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“Republicans go out on the campaign trail and go on TV and do their five-minute hearing videos, and posts up on social media, and say all this garbage about how they’re going to fight it and stop it,” Greene, who is known for her prolific use of social media and outlandish performances in committee hearings, continued. “I feel like many of the American people that think that Republicans in Congress completely fail them — I feel the same way, and I’m a Republican member of Congress.”

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House Republicans spent three weeks last month trying and failing to nominate a new speaker after a group of eight Republicans voted with Democrats to oust the now-former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Now that they’ve succeeded in electing anti-LGBTQ+ House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), they have ten days left to pass large federal spending bills to avert a government shutdown. One of the reasons the process took so long was Greene’s and other far-right Republicans’ refusal to support speaker candidates with broad support or even temporary measures to keep the House functioning.

However, Republicans are deadlocked on how to proceed, as far-right Republicans have inserted anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion amendments into 12 various appropriation bills that effectively fund the entire U.S. government. The amendments would slash military diversity programs and aid to Ukraine, end funding for an African HIV prevention program, and increase anti-immigration measures at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Moderate Republicans in the House oppose these efforts, worrying they’ll repel voters during an election year. Republicans may temporarily sidestep the funding bill battle by approving another continuing resolution to fund the government until a later date, giving the party more time to resolve its deep divisions. But Greene and other Republicans still want to get their way, even though their culture war amendments won’t pass without Democratic and moderate Republican support.

Meanwhile, Greene has decided to occupy herself with a legislative effort that will likely go nowhere: reintroducing a resolution to censure Rep. Tlaib for her comments supporting Palestine (even though a similar resolution failed just last week).

Tlaib, who is of Palestinian heritage, recently criticized President Joe Biden’s full support of Isreal’s attack on Gaza after Hamas fighters from the region launched an attack on Israeli civilians, sparking a violent ongoing conflict that has killed thousands. Tlaib said Biden supported the “genocide” of Palestinians, and she posted a video of pro-Palestinian protestors chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

While Republicans sought to censure Tlaib, saying the chant calls for the eradication of Israel, Tlaib has said the chant is “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.” Last week, 23 Republicans voted against censuring Tlaib, causing the resolution to fail. Even though the resolution doesn’t do anything beyond expressing the sentiment of the House, Greene is still working to get it passed.

Only four of Greene’s co-sponsored bills have ever become law, a “miserable” record when compared to Republican colleagues who have passed 20 or 30 laws even though they have been in the chamber as long as she has, Newsweek reported.