Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said her Republican colleagues don’t deserve to maintain their slim majority in the House next year after working with Democrats to pass a temporary spending deal to avoid a government shutdown.
In an interview on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, Greene described what she views as a “double-edged sword” in November: the need to control the House by reelecting many of her colleagues whom she views as not conservative enough.
“I share the anger and frustration, and I don’t think Republicans deserve to be re-elected to hold the majority,” Greene said, encouraging voters to cast their ballots for former President Donald Trump to ensure GOP control of the White House.
But, she added, “We also have to control the House because if we don’t control the House, the Democrats are going to rewrite the tax code. That happens in January 2025, so it’s a nasty double-edged sword.”
Greene’s comments come as the Georgia Republican has been critical of Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) leadership, especially after the top House Republican has relied on Democratic support to pass key government funding legislation. The latest example came this week when the House passed a three-month continuing resolution with more Democratic support than Republicans, prompting backlash from hard-line conservatives.
Other Republicans have echoed similar sentiments, with Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) suggesting earlier this month that Republicans would lose their majority because they haven’t done enough to address voter concerns.
“What is frustrating me is, I firmly believe that House Republicans are going to lose the majority. And we’re going to lose it because of ourselves,” Gonzales said at the Texas Tribune Festival. “We’re getting outraised. We’re getting outspent.”
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has similarly lamented a lack of action among the House GOP, expressing frustration in a floor speech late last year that Republicans don’t have any accomplishments to tout on the campaign trail.
“I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing — one! — that I can go campaign on and say we did. One!” Roy said. “Anybody sitting in the complex, you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, ‘Well, I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats.’”
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) repeated similar comments a few weeks later, telling Newsmax in January, “We have nothing to go out there and campaign on. It’s embarrassing.”
The latest comments from Greene come after the House adjourned for October recess and is not scheduled to return until after the November election. House Republicans are looking to maintain, and even grow, their slim majority when voters head to the ballot box next month.
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All 435 House seats are up for grabs in November, with only 42 considered competitive. Most of those are held by Democrats, which gives the GOP a slight advantage as it heads into the final two months of the election cycle.
But of the 42 competitive seats, 17 are held by Republicans in districts that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, compared to just five Democrats who must defend their seats in districts carried by former President Donald Trump. That means there are just enough vulnerable GOP-held seats to keep things competitive heading into November.