Marjorie Taylor Greene whines about mistreatment after government shutdown threats

Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t happy about how the White House is treating her after she threatened to hold the government hostage if she doesn’t see an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden opened by Republicans. 

Greene seemed to be in quite a foul mood while speaking to a crowd of her constituents in Georgia where she claimed that she wouldn’t vote to open the government unless an impeachment inquiry into Biden was opened according to The Hill. 

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The Georgia Congresswoman explained that she wanted to withhold funds from Special Counsel Jack Smith and fire Hunter Biden Special Counsel David Wiess. “We have to rein in the FBI,” Greene said. “I will not vote for money to go towards those things.” 

Greene also said she would be happy to work with her Republican colleagues and the Speaker of the House. “I will work with everyone. But I will not fund those things,” the Georgia Congresswoman complained.

“I thought it was most important for me to tell you all first, because I work for you,” she said according to a video posted by one of her constituents to social media and quoted by The Hill. “And that’s what we have to do.

Greene later posted a video of her town hall comments on her Twitter account and said that she would not vote to fund the government if Congress didn’t meet four conditions. 

These conditions included these four points: 1) Impeachment Inquiry vote on Joe Biden; 2) Defund Biden’s weaponization of government; 3) Eliminate all COVID vaccines and mandates; and, 4) No funding for the war in Ukraine. 

The White House was quick to react to Greene’s comments calling Greene “extreme” as well as the “hardcore fringe” and the Republican party according to The Guardian. 

“The last thing the American people deserve is for extreme House members to trigger a government shutdown that hurts our economy, undermines our disaster preparedness, and forces our troops to work without guaranteed pay,” said White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates. 

Greene immediately turned the situation to her advantage with her followers on Twitter and portrayed herself as a victim of vicious attacks from the White House for having the “audacity” to say that Congress needed to look into what Biden has been hiding. 

“The White House is attacking me for demanding an impeachment inquiry before I’ll vote to fund one penny to our over bloated $32 TRILLION dollar in debt failing government,” Greene wrote on Twitter. 

“We have the evidence they have desperately been trying to hide to just ask the question. Should we inquire? Should we just take a look? Dare we investigate further? The answer is YES but the White House is outraged at my audacity to demand it,” Greene said. 

This isn’t the first time Greene has gone off on a tangent about looking into Biden and asking questions about what’s been going on behind the scenes. On August 26, Greene appeared on Real America’s Voice News program ‘American Sunrise ‘asking questions.’

“I can’t comprehend that we need any more evidence. We have so much,” the far-right Georgia congresswoman explained on air according to quotes published by HuffPost. 

Greene tried to explain that impeachment wasn’t as bad as it seemed and said that the process was only about asking questions, which revealed once again that she fundamentally doesn’t understand how the American political process works. 

Congress has the sole power to initiate an impeachment but it's the Senate that has the sole power to try impeachment, and that must be done with a two-thirds majority based on Article 1 Sections 2 and 3 of The United States Constitution. 

While it's unlikely that Biden would ever see a two-thirds majority of the Senate vote for his impeachment, if it did, he would be removed from office upon conviction and would not be eligible to hold public office in the future. So it isn’t just asking questions.

The Guardian noted that the U.S. government will begin furloughing federal workers and close the doors of its agencies on September 30th, 2023, the date at which government funding will run out if a new spending measure isn’t passed.