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Marjorie Taylor Greene during his speech [47] In the videos, Greene said that she wanted Omar and Tlaib to instead be sworn in on the Bible and accused them of supporting Islamic law. [121], On January 27, 2021, Representative Jimmy Gomez announced he had drafted a resolution to expel Greene from the House after reports that she had previously called for violence against Democrats. 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[318], In 2018, Greene shared a video, With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations repeating the antisemitic white genocide conspiracy theory that Zionists are conspiring to flood Europe with migrants to replace the native white populations. [386] She testified for three hours on April 22. [15], In 2018 and 2019, Greene's Facebook account expressed support for the execution of leading Democrats, including Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, as well as support for the execution of FBI agents. During the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Select Coronavirus Crisis hearing Wednesday, the Republican congresswoman decided to grill Randi Weingarten, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene faced fresh questions about her history of incendiary behavior and spreading baseless attacks on Democratic opponents -- but doubled down in an interview with "60 Minutes" which aired on CBS on Sunday night. [310][343] Greene used the criticism for a fundraising push,[342] saying, "Democrats are trying to expel me from Congress" and telling her supporters to "StandWithMTG". "[190][191] On August 12, Greene admitted that COVID-19 is spreading, but falsely said that hospitals were not overwhelmed with afflicted patients, and added, "we're human, we can't live forever, we're going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%. [174][175] The day after the podcast, she defended her comments, adding, "any rational Jewish person doesn't like what's happening with overbearing mask mandates and overbearing vaccine policies." She wrote that it was time for "strong conservative Christians to go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart"; the caption under the images was "Squad's worst nightmare". [387], On January 30, 2021, the first episode of Saturday Night Live's 46th season featured a cold open where a caricature of Greene, played by Cecily Strong, espoused debunked conspiracy theories and discussed how she "told [her] supporters that they should physically murder Nancy Pelosi". [243][244][245] Greene denounced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a civil rights and police reform bill,[246] as an "Anti-Police bill", erroneously claiming it would bar law enforcement from using facial recognition. Donate Today. [217] The bill also sought to provide monetary grants to the families of Border Patrol agents killed as a result of Operation Fast and Furious. "[13][301] She has also claimed that Democratic National Committee staff member Seth Rich was murdered by the MS-13 gang on Obama's behalf. "[336] In response, Greene tweeted that the Republican Party's only problem are "weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully". 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[108] She was reelected in 2022, defeating Democratic nominee Marcus Flowers by almost 30 points. He only voted one time. [63][65], Greene campaigned as a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump but was not endorsed by him. "[271][272], In late 2021, Greene advocated a "national divorce" between red states and blue states. [128], Later in May, Greene voted against the January 6 commission, a proposed commission which would have investigated the attack on the Capitol. Capitol. [308][309] Greene called Hogg, who advocates gun control, "#littleHitler"[15] and, in a 2019 interview with a gun-rights group, denounced him as an "idiot" who is trained "like a dog". [45], Greene was a top official of the Family America Project, a conservative group founded in January 2018. Greene was briefly a member of the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Education and Labor before she was removed from all committee assignments on February 4, 2021, for incendiary remarks she had made before her election. "[237], In May 2022, Greene claimed that straight people would go extinct within less than two centuries due to LGBT-inclusive educators, calling them "trans terrorists". "[357][358], In February 2021, CrossFit attempted to distance itself from Greene, who once owned an affiliated gym and is an avid proponent of CrossFit fitness regimens. [369], In 2022, the White House criticized Greene for attacking its student loan forgiveness program, calling her hypocritical since she accepted forgiveness of a $183,504 loan from the Paycheck Protection Program. [329][330][331] Greene speaks often about her faith and has said that she wants to bring "my faith and my family values to Washington". [133], In June 2021, Greene was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6. [110] During the counting of electoral votes, Greene raised an objection to counting Michigan's electoral votes. [388][389] After Greene opposed the Equality Act, her character featured again in February on the Weekend Update sketch, wherein she misspelled "science", compared herself to Pennywise the Dancing Clown, pulled a handgun on co-anchor Colin Jost, and claimed to be possessed by a demon. Newsletter Signup Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been in office less than a month, but shes already drawing attention for some pretty disturbing superlatives. "[97], Prominent Republicans who supported Greene in her candidacy included Donald Trump; U.S. representatives Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, and Matt Gaetz; Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk; and Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows. "[279] On January 29, 2021, The New York Times detailed Greene's support for and past ties with extremist militia groups, including the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers; both groups had members participate in the 2021 attack on the U.S. In another post, she claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was also a false flag operation. "[192], Greene is a supporter of former president Donald Trump; on January 4, 2021, she called for the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Georgia to be decertified. ROME, Ga. . [335], With Republican officials under mounting pressure to denounce Greene,[126] Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement to The Hill in which he attacked "loony lies and conspiracy theories" as a "cancer for the Republican Party". When Marjorie Taylor Greene, the new congresswoman known for her racist and anti-Semitic rants, was a senior at South Forsyth County High School in 1992, a few [290], In August 2022, Greene claimed that Democrats had designed the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri to boost Biden in the midterms because the Russian invasion of Ukraine had not achieved this, shortly before doubting he had been killed. "Marjorie Greene" redirects here. [382], In July 2022, Twitter labeled two tweets by Greene, in which she misgendered and deadnamed Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, as violating their rules on hateful conduct, but did not delete them, saying it believed it was in the public's interest for the tweets to remain accessible. [100][104] The Georgia Republican Party contributed $5,220 to her campaign treasury on March 2, 2020. God is. [52][b] She stated her commitment to balance the federal budget and restrain Congress from using its constitutional power to spend new money into existence, adding: "If we look at our country as our household, we're going to go under foreclosure because we're overspending. [127], The Washington Post reported in May 2021 that two of its reporters observed Greene aggressively confront Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber, loudly asking why she supported antifa and Black Lives Matter, which Greene falsely characterized as terrorists. "[398], Greene married Perry Greene in 1995 while in college. It's rare for a member of the House of Representatives to become well-known nationally, especially someone in only their [66], Greene finished first in the June 9 primary. Powder Springs is one of two predominantly Black suburbs drawn into the far-right Republicans district. 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