Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vented her frustration with the Trump administration’s foreign policy decisions and drew a line in the sand on earning her support for spending and policy coming from the House.
Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, is one of President Trump’s most ardent allies and spent much of the 2024 campaign season stumping for his return to the White House.
Now, just over 100 days into his second term, she’s unhappy with the administration’s direction and warned that her anger is shared by the voters who sent the president to Washington.
“I represent the base, and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy,” Ms. Greene said in a lengthy X post Friday. “I campaigned for no more foreign wars. And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran.”
The lawmaker’s comments come after yet another round of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran faltered this week and as the president vowed to levy secondary sanctions against countries that purchase oil or petrochemicals from the Islamic Republic.
Mr. Trump also previously threatened to use military force to keep Iran from building nuclear weapons.
Ms. Greene, notably, didn’t directly criticize the president in her sprawling message.
“When you are losing MTG, you are losing the base,” she said. “And Trump isn’t on the ballot in the future, so do the math on that.”
She vowed in another lengthy social media post on Saturday that in the future, earning her vote would be contingent on how Republicans approach a slate of issues as the House and Senate sprint to pass the president’s agenda.
The lawmaker expressed frustration with the mineral deal with Ukraine that stipulates Kyiv will grant the U.S. access to the country’s rare earths in exchange for an investment fund in the war-beleaguered nation, which could lead to military assistance.
Ms. Greene has been one of the loudest voices among Republicans against sending aid to Ukraine.
She went so far as to try, unsuccessfully, to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, over a multibillion-dollar aid package he passed with the help of Democrats last year.
Ms. Greene said she won’t vote for “a single penny or bullet to Ukraine,” regardless of the mineral deal, adding that the U.S. should mine its own rare earths.
She also said the administration should be less focused on Iran and turn its aggression toward Mexican cartels.
“If we can post on social media that we are going to bomb Iran,” she said, referencing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s message of “consequence” for Iran’s support of the Houthis, “why would we hesitate or ask permission from Mexico to take out the organizations that enrich themselves by tens of billions every year by murder, rape, drug trafficking, and human and child sex trafficking?”
Budget reconciliation was another target, where she promised to vote against the House GOP’s sweeping tax and spending cuts, border and defense funding, and energy policy package unless it included the president’s “campaign promises of NO tax on tips, overtime and social security.”
Ms. Greene also wants to codify the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts, making them permanent, and won’t vote to fund the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unless the COVID-19 vaccine is removed from the childhood vaccine schedule, “the trans agenda and child abusive medical industry” and abortions.
“If Republicans can’t do these things, then they have no idea why we won the election,” she said.
