WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday tore into her own party leader, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), for failing to produce a GOP health care plan that could replace the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans have been unsuccessfully trying to dismantle for years.
Greene went off on Johnson on social media, after a reporter shared that she’d told House Republicans on an earlier conference call that she was tired of them taking their cues from White House political staff. She also reportedly said on the call that she wanted Senate Republicans to get rid of the filibuster in order to bypass Democrats to reopen the government.
“You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders,” the conservative firebrand wrote on X, taking a shot at Johnson for not keeping the House in session amid the shutdown.
Her deeper dig, though, was on the speaker’s lack of a Republican health care proposal to replace the ACA, also referred to as Obamacare.
“I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans,” Greene said. “Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call.”
