Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is ramping up her criticism of GOP leadership during the government shutdown by warning that Republicans could lose the House if they don’t keep their promise to decrease the cost of living.
“I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck,” the lawmaker told Semafor in an interview Monday.
Voters will “definitely be going into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank account,” she said.
Greene argued that health care “should be the No. 1 thing that we’re working on,” predicting it will be “one of the top issues” in the 2026 midterms.
Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies are due to expire at the end of the year, and if Republicans and Democrats don’t overcome their stalemate, premiums will more than double, on average, for over 20 million people.
Greene then suggested Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had not delivered on a “so-called Republican plan” to iron out America’s health care woes.
“Mike Johnson is at the press conferences every morning saying that we’ve got pages and pages, or we’ve got a Republican plan — yet I haven’t seen one single page of the so-called Republican plan,” she continued. “I haven’t heard one single GOP conference call on this issue.”
“It’s like, where is it?” Greene added. “The Republican Party is failing.”
In an Oct. 6 X post, Greene railed at the GOP over health care.
“I’m not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games. … I’m carving my own lane,” she wrote. “Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!”
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Asked about Greene’s tweet, Johnson told Fox News that he and his “friend” had a “thoughtful conversation” about her concerns.
“There are many Republicans that have been working around the clock on this,” he said earlier this month. “There has been a lot of work done on this. We have hundreds of ideas — literally on the table — to fix health care. To make it more affordable for the American people.”
He added, “There’s a lot that can be done, but you have to build consensus in a large, deliberative, public body like this.”
Representatives for Johnson and Greene didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment.
Greene’s comments to Semafor came as she called out the House in an X post declaring that she has “no respect for the decision to refuse to work.”
“The House should be in session working,” she wrote on Monday. “We should be finishing appropriations. Our committees should be working. We should be passing bills that make President Trump’s executive orders permanent.”