Political firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene has called out both Democrats and Republicans for the government shutdown in her appearance on The View. Speaking with the panelists on the popular ABC talk show, MTG was irritated with what she called “a pissing contest” between both parties. The MAGA Republican specifically blamed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for the shutdown, saying that it was “an embarrassment.”
MTG calls out Republicans in The View appearance
“I want all federal employees to be paid,” Greene said on the program. “I want all the programs to be funded, and I think that is our job, all of us together, Republicans and Democrats in the House and the Senate.”
Feeling “comfortable” at a table of women on the show, she said, “I am really tired of the pissing contest in Washington, D.C. between the men.”
Greene continued to lay the blame on “weak Republican men,” specifically “the leadership in the House and Senate,” for “not getting our agenda done.”
To her, this includes not having a strong plan on healthcare. “I’m going to pick on Republicans,” she continued. “Republicans never fixed it and then the ACA tax credits were passed in 2021 and there was a sunset date of the end of this year…. Republicans never made a plan for that.”
When pressed on her recent criticism of Republicans and Donald Trump, particularly on the release of the Epstein files, the Georgia congressman says that she hasn’t changed. “Oh no, nothing has changed about me. I am saying absolutely, 100% true to the people that voted for me and true to my district.”
Panelist Sunny Hostin, however, grilled Greene on her prior support for various QAnon conspiracy theories. When she responded by saying that she was “a victim just like you were of media lies and stuff read on social media,” Behar then asked about the “Jewish space lasers” that MTG tweeted about in 2018 as a cause for the California wildfires. This caused the majority of the panelists to start talking over another, requiring Whoopi Goldberg to interrupt and end the conversation for break.
