WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., slammed the Trump administration’s seize of Venezuelan chief Nicolás Maduro, saying on NBC Information’ “Meet the Press” Sunday that the operation was a part of “the identical Washington playbook that we’re so sick and bored with that doesn’t serve the American folks.”
Greene argued that President Donald Trump and his administration “campaigned on Make America Nice Once more, that we thought was placing America first.”
“I need to see home coverage be the precedence that helps People afford life after 4 disastrous years of the Biden administration,” she advised “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, pointing to insurance policies to prioritize jobs, housing and well being care.
Her feedback come as lawmakers grapple with the operation that captured Maduro and his spouse and introduced them to the U.S., with lawmakers’ assist largely falling alongside celebration traces. Greene has beforehand opposed Trump administration insurance policies that she argued contradicted “America First” rules.
In Sunday’s interview, she mentioned that “we don’t take into account Venezuela our neighborhood.”
“Our neighborhood is correct right here within the 50 United States, not within the Southern Hemisphere,” she mentioned.
On Saturday, Trump was requested by a reporter how operating Venezuela aligns together with his “America First” agenda, after he mentioned earlier that the U.S. would “run the nation” till there was a transition to new management.
“I feel it’s as a result of we need to encompass ourselves with good neighbors,” Trump advised the reporter. “We need to encompass ourselves with stability. We need to encompass ourselves with vitality. We now have great vitality in that nation. It’s crucial that we defend it. We want that for ourselves. We want that for the world.”
Greene publicly spoke towards the Maduro operation on Saturday as nicely. The congresswoman mentioned in a put up to X that People’ “disgust with our personal authorities’s unending navy aggression and assist of overseas wars is justified as a result of we’re pressured to pay for it.”
“That is what many in MAGA thought they voted to finish,” she mentioned within the put up. “Boy have been we flawed.”
Greene’s final day in Congress shall be on Monday. She introduced her resignation in November after a public falling-out with Trump, regardless of having beforehand been a loyal backer.
All through the general public fights main as much as Greene’s resignation announcement, the congresswoman broke with him on points together with worldwide relations, Trump’s dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein case and Obamacare subsidies.
She has argued that Trump has not targeted sufficient on home coverage, saying later in a CBS Information “60 Minutes” interview that “for an ‘America First’ president, the No. 1 focus ought to have been home coverage, and it wasn’t.”
