Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s impassioned criticism of the financial system on ABC’s “The View” prompted a jarring suggestion from co-host Pleasure Behar — perhaps the MAGA diehard “ought to turn out to be a Democrat.”
The Georgia congresswoman, a longtime Trump ally, has been making the rounds on left-leaning channels as she sides with Dems on their calls to increase Obamacare tax credit and finish the federal government shutdown.
Throughout Tuesday’s present, which coincided with Election Day, Greene stated she was “unapologetically America first” with regards to serving her constituents.
Behar jumped in: “Perhaps you must turn out to be a Democrat, Marjorie.”
“I’m not a Democrat,” Greene replied, although her response was practically drowned out by the viewers’s applause. “You need to know one thing, I say this: I feel each events have failed.”
Greene hit again at claims that she has flip-flopped throughout the federal government shutdown, which is now the longest in historical past at 36 days.
“All people is like, ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene has modified.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh no, nothing has modified about me!” she stated.
“I’m staying completely, 100% true to the those that voted for me and true to my district.”
Behar pushed again, questioning how Greene may nonetheless assist Trump as a result of he “goes in opposition to the whole lot you simply stated.”
Greene replied that she “fought” for Trump to win and is “very grateful for the safe border.”
Earlier within the present, co-host Whoopi Goldberg requested Greene about MAGA voters who supported Trump as a result of they needed low grocery costs – and at the moment are pissed off that tariffs look like hurting soybean and cattle farmers whereas the shutdown has led to meals stamp cuts.
“I’m so America first,” Greene stated. “That’s my district and that’s what folks need. They’re so uninterested in their hard-earned tax {dollars} being despatched abroad to international wars and international support and international causes whereas life in America simply turns into increasingly unaffordable.”
Final week, Goldberg shocked the viewers when she introduced Greene can be making an look. “The View” isn’t normally seen as pleasant territory for GOPers.
However the hosts of the ABC speak present – together with Goldberg, Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro – showered the congresswoman with reward through the present final month.
Goldberg lauded Greene as “a really stunning voice of purpose.”
“What the hell is happening?” she joked.
Behar jumped in, saying the congresswoman “additionally has a few children who want – the insurance coverage premiums are going up, so it’s very private to her. You already know, I’ll take it.”
In a social media publish final month, Greene clarified she is “not a fan” of Obamacare, including that she was not in Congress when the forty fourth president’s signature laws took impact in 2010.
“However I’m going to go in opposition to everybody on this challenge as a result of when the tax credit expire this yr my very own grownup youngsters’s insurance coverage premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, together with all of the great households and hard-working folks in my district,” she wrote.
Latest weeks have seen her step exterior her regular turf, showing on CNN’s “The Scenario Room” in October and on HBO’s “Actual Time with Invoice Maher returns” final week.
