MTG fumes that Republicans are 'doing nothing' to tackle high food prices as shutdown rumbles on [View all]
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 15 October 2025 21:57 BST
Marjorie Taylor Greene has hit out at her fellow Republicans for "doing nothing" about rising food and healthcare costs in her latest breach with the Trump administration.
In an interview with the conservative broadcaster Real America's Voice on Tuesday, the Georgia congresswoman warned that letting Joe Biden's Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of the year would "crush" Americans' finances.
Those subsidies are now at the heart of a government shutdown that's lasted 15 days and counting. Senate Democrats are demanding the subsidies be extended as a condition of reopening the government while Republicans are refusing to budge.
"My big warning is, we have to take this very seriously. Because if Republicans are responsible for doing nothing about this, and regular innocent Americans' health insurance premiums double, they're not gonna be able to pay their rent," Taylor Greene said. "They're already getting crushed with the cost of living expenses that the Biden administration created but that have not come back down. Food prices have gone up this year...
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-shutdown-obamacare-trump-b2846196.html
We are really truly living in bizarro world.
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