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"Greene has broken with her party and Trump on a number of high-profile occasions this year, calling the situation in Gaza a " genocide" and criticizing Trump's bombing of Iran. In perhaps her most high-profile move, she was one of a few Republicans to sign the House discharge petition forcing a vote to release all the Epstein files. That, especially, is not going over well with the White House."
"As if the trend-piece sirens weren't already blaring in newsrooms, Greene made another splash this week when she defended extending expiring Obamacare subsidies, the very issue over which Democrats are waging this shutdown. "When the tax credits expire this year my own adult children's insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE," she wrote in a long post, "along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district.""
President Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize and received consolatory commentary. The government shutdown has lingered while commentators even blame Jeffrey Epstein in jest. Elections and another indictment of a Trump adversary remain part of the political backdrop. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has publicly broken with party leaders by calling Gaza a genocide, criticizing Trump's bombing of Iran, and signing a House discharge petition to force release of Epstein files. Greene defended extending expiring Obamacare subsidies, noting personal stakes as her adult children's premiums would double without the credits, and called the shutdown shameful and damaging.
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