2023-07-07 04:18:00
Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and ex-President Donald Trump at an event in Georgia on June 10, 2023.
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In the Trump camp, she is one of the particularly loud supporters – but an internal dispute is now costing Marjorie Taylor Greene her post in the ultra-right House Freedom Caucus.
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An internal dispute costs Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene her seat in the far-right House Freedom Caucus. Apparently, the Republican group of the House Freedom Caucus voted to expel her. Taylor Greene is no longer allowed to take part in meetings or strategy meetings of the alliance. Taylor Greene recently described the ultra-right MP Lauren Boebert as a “little bitch” in a congressional debate. But the background is also likely to be strategic alliance that Taylor Greene had formed with the more moderate Republican Majority Leader in the lower house of Congress, Kevin McCarthy.
The powerful far-right wing of the US House of Representatives has apparently turned against one of its most well-known representatives. According to consistent US media reports yesterday (local time), the Republican group of the House Freedom Caucus voted to expel MP Marjorie Taylor Greene. This should no longer take part in meetings or strategy discussions of the alliance.
Taylor Greene, who is known for harsh rhetoric, conspiracy theories and radical positions, recently described the ultra-right MP Lauren Boebert as a “little bitch” in a congressional debate. This was reportedly the trigger for talks to expel the 49-year-old from the Freedom Caucus, which includes a few dozen of the most radical Republicans.
However, the background may also be a strategic alliance that Taylor Greene had entered into in recent months: She had turned to the more moderate majority leader of the Republicans in the lower chamber of Congress, Kevin McCarthy. Among other things, she is said to have helped McCarthy get the right-wing unpopular compromise with President Joe Biden through the house in the debt dispute. After that, rumors of cracks in the Republican camp, which was particularly loyal to Trump, surfaced.
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