Republican Congresswoman, Marjorie Greene,
has been very busy not with governing or legislating or doing anything to
improve the lives of the constituents who live in her district in Georgia, but
she has been busy calling her colleague, Lauren Boebert, a little bitch.
And to keep the embarrassing reality show going, Greene makes her rounds in
the media only to brag about her high school cat fight on national television.
>> According to CNN, Daily Beast and others, you accused your Republican
colleague ,Lauren Boebert, on the House floor of stealing or
copying your impeach Biden resolution and then called her a nasty little bitch.
And I only use that word because you've confirmed it.
Is this the media loving a cat fight?
Coz you haven't exactly shied away from this.
>> Well, I find it unfortunate that Lauren Boebert leaked that
conversation that we had to the press.
But once she leaked it out, I had to confirm that that's in fact, what I said.
>> Wow, Boebert must have done something particularly nasty.
Maybe she stood in the way of legislation that would have materially improved
the lives of Americans, and that's what Greene is upset about.
But no, of course not.
Their little conflict stemmed from performative anti-Biden nonsense.
>> I had asked her to co-sponsor my articles of impeachment against Joe Biden
on the border, and she never responded and apparently refused to do so.
Then when she introduced her own and
forced them to the floor with a privileged resolution without even having the courage
to talk to any other Republican in our conference before doing so,
except Speaker McCarthy and apparently a few others, yeah, we had a tense
conversation when she confronted me about things I had said about it.
But this is unfortunate that this becomes public on the House floor.
>> Look, I don't really care about the juvenile crap that
these women are engaging in, especially when Americans are faced with so
many devastating challenges.
Consumer debt is at an all time high.
Housing is unaffordable and out of reach for countless Americans.
Homelessness has skyrocketed in recent years.
Our hellish health care system is in desperate need of reform.
And when it comes to these very real issues, Greene, much like her
GOP colleagues, has ensured that she stands in the way of any positive change.
Now, even the White House is calling her out on it.
It all started this week when the Rome News Tribune ran a front page
article highlighting a more than $1 million federal public safety
grant that Greene's hometown of Floyd County is set to accept.
The federal funds were appropriated as part of the American rescue plan
that Biden signed into law in March of 2021.
The problem is, Greene,
along with every other House Republican, voted no on the bill.
In fact, Greene pulled a stunt in an attempt to delay passage of the bill.
Greene drew bipartisan ire after she called for
a vote to adjourn the House of Representatives in an attempt to delay
final passage of President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
Considering Greene voted against the bill, the White House wasn't so
amused when she was getting credit for the passage in her local paper.
According to the Hill,
the Biden administration took a well deserved shot at Greene over her no-vote.
White House spokesperson, Robin Pattinson, Patterson, I should say,
told the Hill in a statement that, quote, president Biden is proud of the resources
he's provided to stand up for the rule of law, crack down on gun crimes, and
keep cops on the beat in Floyd County and across the country.
Unlike Representative Marjorie Greene, who voted against this funding,
as well as to defund federal law enforcement and
fire thousands of Border Patrol agents, president Biden is committed to ensuring
law enforcement has the resources they need to keep Northwest Georgians safe.
Greene tried to throw her own jabs at the White House, arguing that Biden's alleged
laxed border policies are hurting public safety in her state of Georgia.
But while Republican lawmakers like Greene like to
center their re-election campaigns on the need for public safety and
border control, they consistently vote against it.
They vote against funding it.
The White House has accused House Republicans of opposing funding for
law enforcement with their votes against the American Rescue Plan and
of cutting funding for border security when they supported the debt limit plan
the conference approved in April.
And guess what? Those accusations are correct.
I'm not some big supporter of President Biden.
I've got deep issues with him.
But remember that big debt ceiling fight between Biden and
Republican House leadership?
Well, thanks to Republicans pretending they're concerned about the federal debt,
the debt deal caps spending on government programs to 2023 levels.
That means that the Department of Homeland Security,
which is tasked with border control,
is actually getting a funding cut in 2024 when you adjust for inflation.
But it gets worse.
The bill cuts so-called non-defense discretionary,
which includes domestic law enforcement, forest management,
scientific research and more for the 2024 fiscal year.
It would limit all discretionary spending to 1% growth in 2025,
which is effectively a budget cut,
because that is projected to be slower than the rate of inflation.
This is what Greene wanted, so
she can spare us the BS scaremongering about the southern border.
What's incredible, though, is that even Stephen Miller,
the architect of Trump's most brutal antiimmigration policies,
was on board with cutting border control spending as part of the debt ceiling bill.
Believe it or not, the guy behind ripping children away from their
asylum seeking parents at the border is even calling Greene a warrior.
>> This is a $2 trillion spending cut, and I will say, if you look at who is
supporting it, he's got Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene out there,
two conservative warriors, on his behalf, fighting for this thing.
>> Later in the interview, Miller even admits that spending cuts impacts security
at the border, but alleges that the GOP will secure more funding for
DHS through future appropriations bills.
>> And then we come back on the appropriations process and
we seal the border, we defund critical race theory,
we demolish the deep state at the DOJ and in the intelligence and security states.
>> Right, just keep in mind right now, the backdrop is
the Republican Party arguing that there is literally a crisis,
an invasion at our southern border, okay?
But he's like, it's okay.
Yeah, we're going to cut some spending, and
then maybe later on we'll get the spending back through appropriations bills.
Which is laughable, considering the gridlock in Congress and
Biden's ability to veto any bill he doesn't like.
But more importantly, this story should force you to ask a few critical questions.
What do elected lawmakers really stand for and what are they really up to?
As they say one thing publicly and
vote against what they claim to care about most?
Are they sincere about anything?
Or are they just interested in endless performative garbage that
does nothing to improve your life?
It's an open and shut case with lawmakers like Greene.
Her fight with Boebert isn't about improving your safety or
economic conditions, Greene just doesn't want Boebert to outshine her in
baseless Biden impeachment efforts.
So, next time she whines about public safety or illegal immigration,
she should answer for why she refuses to put her money where her mouth is.