Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has criticized Democratic lawmakers over their policies and encouraged her fellow Republicans to figure out how to “appropriately” fund the government ahead of a potential shutdown at the end of September.
The potential shutdown, scheduled to start on Sept. 30, would begin due to the government running out of money without the passage of spending bills. Ahead of the deadline, Greene said that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy “told us last week that we’re not leaving town” until they finish their work, with which she said she “completely” agrees.
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“The voters across America gave Republicans the House majority for a reason, and that’s because they don’t like Democrat policies of failure, of high inflation,” Greene told Sunday Morning Futures. “Senior citizens can’t afford groceries. Gas prices are out of control. No one can afford their electricity bills, and nobody wants the Green New Deal. And so I think it’s our job to get in the room, and get to work, and figure out how to fund the government, but do it appropriately.”
The Green New Deal was reintroduced by Congressional Democrats earlier this year and is aimed at shaping the billions of dollars in clean energy spending under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Greene’s concerns about the United States’s cost of living come as inflation has ticked up to 1.6% for the year ending in August, the second such month of increases. Rent prices also rose in August by just over 0.7% from the month before, with the national median rent price at $2,052.
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Ahead of the potential shutdown, several hard-line conservatives have threatened to withhold their support on any spending legislation unless other demands are met. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) claimed on Thursday that the standoff over government funding is House Republicans’s only chance to leverage their agenda against the Senate, which the Democrats control, and the White House.
The Republican Study Committee, the largest group of GOP lawmakers in the House, endorsed Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) plan to pass a short-term continuing resolution on Thursday. The endorsement indicates a majority of the GOP conference will back such a move, sending a signal of hope that lawmakers may avoid a government shutdown just three weeks before the deadline.
