As Congress faces its next budget crisis, one key conservative is laying down her law on what she wants before agreeing to even a temporary spending bill negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Democrats.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she wants President Joe Biden’s border agenda reversed and all funding for Ukraine’s defense against Russian attacks erased.
The solution, she told Secrets, is to unify and vote to stop spending on the Democratic wish list.
“It’s easy,” she said, focusing on the border.
“I’ll tell you where I’m at, Paul. I’m really sick and tired of it. If Republicans had a spine, and if our conference stuck together, we have all the power that we need to solve the border crisis right now. I completely disagree with [Speaker] Mike Johnson that we aren’t going to be able to do it. I think if we just refused to fund anything, and we stood our ground, that we would come out winning that,” Greene said in a call from Iowa on Monday.
I'll go to the mat to stop the treasonous Senate amnesty deal.
America First means putting Americans first – not illegal aliens, not Ukraine.
The border crisis is a national security threat and it's time we do something about it. pic.twitter.com/nKhA08MwOK
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@RepMTG) January 15, 2024
She said the country knows the border crisis is Biden’s fault.
“All House Republicans have to do is say that you don’t get a single penny until you shut the border down. And that’s where I’m at,” Greene said.
The conservative leader has called for the impeachment of Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in part because of the border crisis.
Greene, a businesswoman back home in Georgia, said that with the government running a deficit, Congress has to be stingy on what it spends and not just open the checkbook for Biden.
And, she added, Congress must learn to say no.
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“Everybody thinks it’s hard. In Washington, D.C., everybody thinks it’s complicated, that you can’t do these things. But you absolutely can do them,” she said.
Greene explained: “When you’re a corporation on the verge of bankruptcy, you literally pick and choose what you have to spend money on to keep the lights on. And then you cut the rest of it. It’s not a top-line number at all. It’s like how to keep the lights on, and that’s all you have to do. And that’s how we should be looking at government funding. We’re just keeping the lights on, and then we only spend money on what we have to solve the problems.”