The View Audience Applauds as Marjorie Taylor Greene Boasts About Roasting Mike Johnson: ‘I Yelled’ at Him!
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined the hosts of The View on Tuesday for a landmark appearance by the MAGA firebrand on the left-leaning daytime talk show.
Greene has long been a controversial figure in American politics, bursting onto the scene after having pushed a torrent of conspiracy theories online, about everything from the cause of forest fires to mass shootings being false flag operations. Greene, in recent weeks, however, has taken a turn to the center and been openly critical of her party on both the shutdown and economic issues.
Host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Greene, “It’s so nice to have you, and I watch you on Bill Maher, and I think you’ve been extremely eloquent in this shutdown and talking about the issue of Obamacare subsidies. I’m a Republican too. We don’t agree on everything, but we both agree we have to extend these subsidies at least for a year because you just can’t pull the rug out from under people who are going to see their premiums skyrocket. You talked about your own family, how you’d be impacted, but I imagine many of the 700,000 constituents you represent. So what are you hearing from your constituents on this issue, and how do you see this shutdown ending?”
“My phone and my office—my district office in Washington—is ringing off the hook every single day. People are beyond outraged, and they’re terrified, but this has been going on for a long time. Democrats voted for the ACA in 2010. It went into effect in 2014. That was the year that we saw our health insurance policy for a family of five go from $800 a month to $2,400 a month,” Greene replied, adding:
And I’ll say this: we also watched health insurance companies drop out of the market, and healthcare costs have risen and risen. But I’m going to pick on Republicans. Republicans never fixed it. And then the ACA tax credits were passed in 2021, and there was a sunset date of the end of this year, and Republicans never made a plan for that. And I have been practically—I yelled at Mike Johnson last week on our GOP conference call.
By the way, I’m missing the call today. It’s going on right now, and I hope that Mike Johnson is finally giving a single healthcare policy, because the country deserves it, and it shouldn’t be a secret. And I shouldn’t have to go into a SCIF to go find our Republican health insurance plan, honestly. Maybe there is no plan. You know what? You want to know something? That, I believe, is the truth. There’s a lot of ideas, there’s a lot of bills, but there’s no consensus, and I think that’s a failure. I do.
The audience applauded Greene as Whoopi Goldberg moved on to ask another question.
Watch the clip above.
