Rep. Major Taylor Green (R-Ga.) dismissed a celebratory tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Wednesday about her committee assignments, instead hitting out at a fellow far-right Republican for keeping Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) bid for speaker earlier this month.
In a tweet, Goetz congratulated Green on her appointments to the House Homeland Security and Oversight Committees after she was removed from her committees under the Democratic majority.
“Well done @mtgreenee!” Goetz tweeted. “She will do an amazing job for the people on these key committees that she WON.”
In response, Greene knocked out Goetz, accusing him of alienating the Republican faction with his opposition to the McCarthy presidency and getting little tangible results from the fight, other than lowering the threshold for a “move-to-vacate” (MTV) chair.
“Thanks to @SpeakerMcCarthy & Steering for voting me into the committees I requested on the submission form most of us filled out,” Green said in a tweet. “Too bad we’re weeks behind after you spent a week just on MTV from 5 to 1.”
“As MAGA’s leading voice in Congress, I look forward to the committees,” Green added.
Among the many concessions McCarthy made to GOP defectors in his bid to become speaker was allowing only one member to file a resignation letter — a move to remove the speaker — compared to five members under a previous agreement.
Green and Goetz, both allies of former President Trump, clashed during the presidential vote, with Green supporting McCarthy and Goetz leading a group of hardline insurgents opposed to him.
Goetz argued in his exchange with Green on Twitter that the waivers also took “a few other things” out of the speaker battle, but Green countered.
“The rule pack didn’t change at all from January 1st to the 6th except MTV went from 5 to 1. Literally anyone can read them online and see that,” Green wrote on Twitter.
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“All the substantive negotiations happened at a conference and 5 family meetings before the 15 votes that start on January 3rd.”
Greene was initially stripped of her committee seats in February 2021 because of what Democrats say is her espousal of dangerous conspiracy theories and support of violence.
Nevertheless, she remains a key Trump ally and has been embraced by McCarthy as he seeks support from far-right factions of the party.
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