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Rep. Ken Buck, a member of the conservative group, offered some of the most definitive comments yet about Greeneās status in the caucus in an interview with NBC News.
A member of the House Freedom Caucus confirmed Wednesday that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been removed from the conservative group, citing her repeated āattacksā on GOP colleagues.
āSheās not a member of the Freedom Caucus, and she shouldnāt be in the future,ā Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., said in an appearance on NBC Newsā āMeet the Press NOWā in some of the most definitive comments yet about Greeneās status in the group.
Greene, a fundraising powerhouse with an enormous social media following, has been one of former President Donald Trumpās top defenders on Capitol Hill. She is the first lawmaker to be ousted from the Freedom Caucus since it was started in 2015 by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, then-Reps. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and others.
Other members of the ultraconservative group had said a vote was taken June 23 to eject Greene over her altercation with Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and her vocal support for Rep. Kevin McCarthyās ultimately successful bid for speaker and his trillion-dollar debt-ceiling deal with President Joe Biden.
But for the past two weeks, there was confusion about her status after Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, R-Pa., declined to comment about the matter and Greene insisted that no one had informed her that she had been voted out. Some Freedom Caucus members suggested that Greene has been avoiding Perryās attempts to reach her to deliver the news.
By Wednesday, Perry and Greene still had not personally spoken about the issue, even though they would have been on the House floor together during votes.
āNo, I havenāt talked with him about any of that,ā Greene said. āIām mostly focused on the work Iām doing and serving my district, not interested in any drama.ā
A spokesman for Greene had no immediate comment about Buckās remarks. Greene did not attend a Freedom Caucus meeting Tuesday night after lawmakers returned to Washington from the July Fourth recess.
Buck, who is one of the more mild-mannered members of the often rambunctious Freedom Caucus, said Greeneās ouster was about not her political views but her repeated attacks on other members of the group, including her criticism of colleagues for blocking McCarthy, R-Calif., from winning the speakerās gavel in January.
āShe has consistently attacked other members of the Freedom Caucus in an irresponsible way, and as a result of that she was kicked out of the Freedom Caucus,ā Buck said, āand she should not be, she should not be a member.
āWe have diverse opinions in the Freedom Caucus. Itās not monolithic, but insofar as attacking other members, it just shouldnāt be tolerated over and over again,ā he continued. āItās not one simple attack. Itās not what happened on the floor a few weeks ago with Lauren Boebert. It is a series of really poorly thought-out attacks on other members.ā
If you told me they made a comic about The Scarecrow getting kicked out of the Legion of Doom for being too nasty, I wouldnāt believe you. But here we are.
āIām mostly focused on the work Iām doing and serving my district, not interested in any drama."
None of those things are true. Sheās never focused on her work, and she absolutely cares more about drama than any part of her job. If it wasnāt for the drama she causes, shed still be some dumb nobody
Itās always the ones who ādonāt care about dramaā that are the instigators of the most drama.
People who actually donāt care about drama, like people who are actually smart, donāt proclaim it.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been removed from the conservative group, citing her repeated āattacksā on GOP colleagues.
The vile, stupid, shocking, racist, anti-American things that she constantly spewed didnāt bother them, but criticizing fellow Republicans? Unacceptable! Narcissistic sociopaths canāt have that.
Sick of the āboys clubā that the Freedom Caucus has turned into, Greene will be starting the Shedom Caucus.
Huh. I wonder if sheās setting herself up for a run at something bigger and trying to be āthe oppositionā.
Run 3rd party Marge, you can do it! Heh.
