Marjorie Taylor Greene Names the ‘Powerful’ Colleagues Ruining the GOP

Marjorie Taylor Greene named five “powerful Republicans in the House” who she claims have been frustrating her political agenda, and in particular her efforts to impeach prominent figures within the Biden administration.

The Georgia Republican gave the names during an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show on X, formerly Twitter, which was released on Thursday.

Greene has attempted to impeach a string of administration figures, but has faced some opposition from within the House Republican party, which only has a slim majority in the second chamber. In November, the Republican firebrand launched impeachment proceedings against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, but this was voted down by 209-201, with eight Republicans joining Democratic representatives to oppose it.

Discussing her impeachment efforts with Carlson, Greene said: “I introduced articles of impeachment of [FBI Director] Christopher Wray, [Attorney General] Merrick Garland, [Attorney for the District of Columbia] Matthew Graves – the son of a b**** who attacks these January 6 defendants day in and day out.”

Commenting on her effort to impeach Mayorkas, she added: “I forced that to the floor recently, eight Republicans voted with the Democrats to protect them, three of them were chairmen of powerful committees…Republicans don’t have the courage or the guts, or maybe they don’t want to, to impeach any of these people.”

Carlson suggested “powerful Republicans in the House were convincing everyone else that these anti-American positions were the right ones” and asked Greene to name the GOP lawmakers who have been frustrating her agenda.

She proceeded to list Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner, Financial Services Committee chair Patrick McHenry, Education Committee chair Virginia Foxx, and representatives Ken Buck and Darrell Issa, both members of the Judiciary Committee. Greene said the latter pair were two of four on the Judiciary Committee who had been frustrating her efforts, but didn’t name the other two.

Newsweek has contacted her office by telephone and voicemail message requesting this information.

Greene went on to claim that GOP lawmakers who oppose her impeachment bids are failing to represent the American people. Describing her House Republican colleagues, she said: “I don’t have enough that are willing to go all the way, truly go all the way, and do what the American people want. It you talk to regular people they want to impeach everyone because in the real world people get fired. They’re like impeach them all, they all suck! Right.”

Just days after her bid to impeach Mayorkas failed, Greene vowed to make another attempt and on Thursday she claimed Speaker Mike Johnson and Mark Green, chair of the Homeland Security Committee, have pledged to support her efforts.

Posting on X she said: “I’ve been guaranteed by Speaker Johnson and Chairman Green that we’ll be moving forward with impeaching Secretary Mayorkas through the Homeland Committee.

“I’m happy with the plan moving forward to do our work for the American people. The impeachment resolution will be reaching the floor soon.”

In September, an impeachment inquiry into President Biden was launched by then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which could potentially lead to a full impeachment trial. The investigation is focusing on whether Biden used his influence improperly to benefit the business interests of family members, particularly his son Hunter Biden. The president has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and insists he has nothing to do with his son’s business activities.