Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again turning her fire inward — this time at her own party. In a new interview with The Washington Post, she accused her male colleagues in Congress of being “weak,” saying that GOP leadership has failed to match the aggressiveness she believes is needed to push through the conservative agenda under President Trump’s second term. “There’s a lot of weak Republican men,” Greene said, “and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women. So they always try to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something and actually want to achieve.”
MTG Is Breaking With Her Own Party
It’s the latest sign that Greene — once seen as a loyal Trump foot soldier — is increasingly disillusioned with her own party’s inner workings. Greene criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson, accusing him of failing to take advantage of Republican control to resolve the shutdown on their terms. She said Johnson told her the Senate couldn’t eliminate the 60-vote filibuster rule — a procedural barrier that’s frustrated conservative lawmakers — but Greene brushed that off as political cowardice. “They can’t do it,” she said, “even though it’s math.”
She’s All In For Healthcare Subsidies
Her critique wasn’t limited to procedural fights. Greene also broke ranks with much of her party by supporting Democratic calls to preserve healthcare subsidies, a key sticking point in budget negotiations. It’s a surprising position for someone who’s built her career railing against the left — but, in her telling, it’s part of her larger frustration that Republicans, even with unified power, aren’t getting much done.
MTG Wants To See All Of The Epstein Files
Greene says she’s been pushing the Justice Department to release all its files related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death. She claimed that both Trump and Johnson have resisted her efforts to force a vote on the matter, accusing colleagues of backing away out of fear of retaliation from party leaders.
Greene Believes Women Have Been Sidelined By The GOP
The congresswoman framed her criticism as part of a broader problem of gender and power inside the Republican Party. She said women in the GOP — including herself and New York Representative Elise Stefanik — have been sidelined by leadership, arguing that men in her party “don’t know what to do with” strong women. “She gets shafted,” Greene said of Stefanik’s removal from consideration as ambassador to the United Nations, noting that Trump instead tapped National Security Adviser Michael Waltz for the position despite a controversy involving leaked communications about Yemen. “She’s a woman, so it was OK to do that to her somehow. She told the Post, “The Republican Party has got to stop being afraid of its own shadow.”
