Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Democrats To Their Faces For 'Lies And Divisiveness'

At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) fired back at Democratic opposition to the budget reconciliation.

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00:00clear and build on what Mr. Lynch is saying here. First of all, this is just preserving the existing

00:05programs that Americans are already depending on and are speaking loud and clear. In fact,

00:10the polling shows this week that two-thirds of Americans are completely opposed to the cuts

00:16that Doge and Elon Musk have put on these programs. And I hear people in this chamber

00:21every single day trying to claim that they're not impacting real Americans, that these are just

00:26paid protesters. Well, let me tell you, I was in community after community in my district over the

00:32last couple of weeks, and I had people show up crying, people saying that their cancer treatments

00:37could be terminated if Medicaid goes away. People who say they will lose everything. They will not

00:44be able to put a roof over their head or food on the table if these cuts go through. People who are

00:50frightened by what they see is the absolute attack on their civil liberties and free speech and their

00:57freedom. And I actually went to the Social Security office in my district last week and was denied entry

01:04and told to call a regional office after I had an appointment and spoke to people who were waiting,

01:10who have literally been waiting for days and weeks because Elon Musk has crashed the Social Security

01:16system, firing people, their computer systems are down, our call centers are completely overwhelmed,

01:22and people cannot get appointments for months. This is what's happening in America right now.

01:28And that is why I introduced this amendment to protect those programs and to fight for the American

01:34people and to fight for the programs that we know they depend on so that they can survive.

01:39I yield back.

01:43Mr. Chairman.

01:44Ms. Green.

01:45Hi. I'd like to point something out that our Democrat colleagues know this because they did

01:53reconciliation before when they were in charge. And, you know, it may be hard for some of the

01:59freshmen Dems to understand, but this is not a policy debate. That's not what reconciliation is.

02:06This is a budget process. And so for the American people watching at home, our Democrat colleagues are

02:13sitting here trying to score points and spread more lies and divisiveness about Republicans in order to

02:21spread more garbage across the country. But this is about budget, Mr. Chairman. And this committee is

02:28trying to do serious work. And we need to stay focused on budget. And that's for the American people. And it is

02:35very serious that that's what we remain focused on here in our work on oversight. And the Democrats know

02:44that provisions must be carefully crafted because they did it before. And it has to be scored by CBO to be

02:52included in this budget bill. And that's what we're trying to do, Mr. Chairman. And I just wanted to point that

02:58out for the people watching at home so they are not swayed by this entertainment today. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.

03:06Mr. Chairman.