Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocked For Admitting She Didn’t Read Trump Budget Bill and Would Now Vote Against It

Sarah RumpfJun 3rd, 2025, 3:35 pm
 

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted for the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that’s backed by President Donald Trump, but admitted on Tuesday that she had not read it.

The budget bill recently passed by the GOP-majority House was put forward under the reconciliation process to avoid getting blockaded by a filibuster in the Senate. It is nonetheless struggling to get the support of enough senators to pass, despite Trump’s loud urging. Republicans have a narrow majority in the Senate and with Democrats expected to vote against the bill, it would only take a few GOP holdouts to block it from passing and kick it back to the House for revisions.

Tuesday afternoon, Greene posted a screenshot of a short section of the bill that addresses states’ powers to regulate artificial intelligence, along with several lines of text admitting that she “did not know about this section” and “I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”

The full text of Greene’s tweet read as follows:

Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years.

I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.

We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous.

This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.

When the OBBB comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it.

We should be reducing federal power and preserving state power.

Not the other way around.

Especially with rapidly developing AI that even the experts warn they have no idea what it may be capable of.

Unsurprisingly, Greene’s admission that she voted yes on a bill she had not fully read attracted a swarm of critics, including several of her Democratic colleagues in the House.

“You have one job,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) fired at her. “To. Read. The. Fucking. Bill.”

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tweeted that he had read the AI provision and that was one of the reasons he voted no. “PRO TIP: It’s helpful to read stuff before voting on it,” he wrote.

 

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