Marjorie Taylor Greene Lashes Out at Fellow House Republican: ‘Congress Was Hijacked’ by ‘Selfish Politician’
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at fellow Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Tuesday after Luna voted with Democrats in favor of remote voting for mothers of young children.
“I can’t believe that Congress was hijacked this week over Luna’s resolution to allow members to skip work and vote from home,” protested Greene in a social media post:
As a mom, I know all about seasons of life. If you aren’t capable of doing the job your constituents sent you to do, then you should step aside and let someone else do it.
We have critical bills to pass to prevent illegals from voting and to stop judges from vetoing President Trump’s agenda.
It’s a shame that selfish politicians are putting themselves before the American people.
Greene also lashed out at Luna – a new mother – in a video, declaring, “What we just voted on, this rule, Luna’s bill, is extremely unfortunate. You know, being in Congress is privilege, you don’t have to be here, and there’s plenty of people in her district that could serve in Congress if she chose for, you know, time to be home and be a mother.”
The congresswoman went on to compare her job to that of a soldier deployed overseas, arguing:
I think members of Congress need to basically leave their egos at the door and realize that this is an important job in the same way that soldiers go off and they’re deployed overseas, they come home and actually meet their babies for the first time and their babies are several months old. Members of Congress don’t have to be here. They don’t have to be here. Being a member of Congress is a privilege. You’re serving your district. There’s lots of seasons of life. I’m a mother, I’ve raised three children, and when my children were babies and were young, I prioritized them in that season of life. Now, I serve in Congress because I’m not raising children, and I think that’s a really important point to make and if any member of Congress for any reason whatsoever finds them in a situation where they’re not able to do the job here, the important job we’re elected to do, they should step down because someone else can serve in their place.
Greene concluded, “They’re not required to be here… and they shouldn’t go across the aisle and work with Democrats while the Democrats use a baby propped up around the floor trying to prove their point, but instead they’re holding a baby proving the point you can be a mother and serve in Congress, so I think today– I think this is unfortunate and it’s distracting and it’s off message and it’s not the agenda. It’s not serving the American people.”
Despite calling proxy voting “unconstitutional,” Greene herself used proxy voting during a vacation to Costa Rica in 2022.
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