Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is tying herself in knots over Donald Trump’s spending bill.
On Tuesday, the Georgia Republican admitted she hadn’t read some of the bill’s contents before voting for it, and she didn’t like them. She specifically called out a section of the bill that would stop states from regulating artificial intelligence for the next decade. Greene said she was “adamantly OPPOSED” to this “potentially dangerous” measure and “would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”
She later added to her criticism on the House floor, saying “we must always limit federal power and protect state power,” and urged the Senate to strip the clause.
But on Wednesday, when pressed during a congressional hearing, she flip-flopped on her flip-flop, insisting she was “proud” to have voted for the legislation.
Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, brought it up during a DOGE subcommittee hearing as he highlighted Elon Musk’s vicious opposition to the GOP bill.
“It’s also interesting, because Chairwoman Greene, I understand, now regrets voting for this bill, as she mentioned yesterday,” Garcia said to the congresswoman, who leads the subcommittee. “Is that correct, Chairwoman Greene?”
Greene replied, “The bill actually destroys what you guys voted for for the past four years, and I’m proud to have voted for that bill to fund border security to deport all of those illegals you guys let in.”
It’s a curious departure from her remarks just a day earlier, when she called the AI provisions she unwittingly voted for “pretty terrifying.”
Attempting to justify her oversight on NewsNation Tuesday, she had explained, “We don’t get the full bill text until very close to the time to vote for it, and so that was one section that was two pages that I didn’t see.”
It marked a rare crack in Greene’s reliable loyalty to the president and his agenda.
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has exposed deep Republican divisions after passing the House by just one vote last month. Musk set off a firestorm this week when he declared it an “outrageous, pork-filled ... disgusting abomination” and excoriated Republicans who voted for it.
The infighting has erupted over several flashpoints, including the $2.4 trillion it’s estimated to add to the national debt over the next decade. Sen. Rand Paul has been a leading GOP critic of the bill, blasting it for ballooning the deficit and lifting the debt ceiling. He’s drawn heated rebukes from Trump, who claims the bill will drive “tremendous GROWTH.”
Democrats broadly oppose the legislation, arguing it gives tax breaks to the rich while hurting the low-income Americans.
The budget package would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and introduce new ones, including no taxes on tips, while imposing work requirements for Medicaid, cutting food stamp access, and directing billions toward immigration measures to boost border security and fast-track deportations.
