Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested the Republican Party could benefit from more voices like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she announced her shock resignation from Congress last week.
“I think it’s important that we have independent voices. I’m sad to see her [Greene’s] voice go away or potentially go away. I think she brought up something the last week or so that was very important: ‘What is the Republican plan for healthcare?’” Paul said on CBS News’s Face the Nation Sunday.
“But that’s what an independent voice will help in our country — an independent voice within the Republican caucus — not to see things always inside the box, but to think of some out of the box solutions. So I think independent voices are important in the Republican Party,” he added.
Greene announced she will resign from Congress at the beginning of next year after serving for three terms. That announcement came shortly after she publicly feuded with President Donald Trump over healthcare costs and the Epstein files.
Trump was initially Greene’s motivation for getting into politics. Greene began her political career as an elector on Trump’s behalf and won her first election in 2020, taking office right around the time of the Jan. 6 riots. Greene would later defend the Jan. 6 protesters and Trump ultimately pardoned all of them.
“I’ve always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives, which is why I’ve always been despised in Washington, D.C., and never fit in,” Greene said in her resignation announcement.
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) also lamented Greene’s resignation, saying he was “very sad for our country but also happy for my friend Marjorie.”
Republicans in the House will be down to a 218-seat majority once Greene departs the lower chamber in January.