Marjorie Taylor Greene just can’t stop embarrassing herself

Marjorie Taylor Greene recently embarrassed herself once again on the national stage, but it was an easy situation to miss. Here’s what the right-wing firebrand said to earn a reprimand from one of her colleagues in Congress. 

On November 14th, the House of Representatives passed a new budget bill backed by House Speaker Mike Johnson. The legislation prevented a government shutdown even though ninety-three lawmakers voted against the bill. 

The budget legislation Johnson proposed is what's known as a continuing resolution according to Newsweek, and it extended five spending bills until January 19th as well as another seven spending bills until February 2nd. 

However, even though the new legislation had been passed in the House, it still needed to pass in the Senate and then get signed into law by the president. The Senate would end up passing the new legislation just one day after the House. 

Job Biden signed the new budget legislation into law on November 16th but it was in the immediate aftermath of the new law’s passage in the House on November 14th that Marjorie Taylor Greene made a series of very unintelligent comments. 

In the hours after the legislation was passed in the House, Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro made the mistake of speculating about the possibility of the government shutting down, according to Newsweek. 

Greene quickly jumped on DeLauro’s comments and attacked her colleague’s words on the House floor. But Greene was in the wrong and DeLauro gave Greene what the New Republic called “another awkward lesson about the U.S. political system.”

“My Democratic colleague across the aisle who is 80 years old and has been here over 30 years just said we’re on the verge of a shutdown,” Greene stated on the House floor as she mocked Representative DeLauro. 

“She probably just forgot that a few hours ago she voted for the continuing resolution that will extend the budget, and we are not on the verge of a shutdown,” Greene added, without realizing the shutdown hadn’t quite been averted just yet. 

DeLauro wasn’t going to let Greene’s comments stand without a response and she addressed the remarks from her colleague in spectacular fashion, explaining how the U.S. political system functioned when it came to passing legislation.

According to the New Republic's explanation of the situation, DeLauro pointed out that there was still another body of the U.S. Congress that had to exercise its own judgment regarding the new spending legislation. 

“It may be that the gentlelady doesn’t know that there is another body attached to the U.S. Congress called the United States Senate, and they have to vote on the continuing resolution,” DeLauro explained. 

“And when they vote on it,” DeLauro continued as she reviewed the process of passing legislation, “we’ll find out what it is that they do with regard to this continuing resolution passed by the House, which quite frankly is flawed to a fare thee well.”

However, the Congresswoman from Connecticut didn’t stop there. She went on to note that the bill proposed by House Speaker Johnson didn’t meet domestic and international obligations before adding in one last gem. 

“And by the way, there isn’t a law of the land until the president of the United States signs it. That may be a basic lesson in civics. There is the House, there is the Senate, and there is the president,” DeLauro joked.

“It's the law of the land,” DeLauro went on to say before adding, “which my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have dismissed, walked away from, and quite frankly, don't understand the process of government." 

Delauro’s informative civics lesson on the function of the U.S. Congress was a painful one to watch, and it was a reminder that the country isn’t always sending its best and brightest to represent their interests in Washington.