Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been voted out of the House Freedom Caucus.
House Freedom Caucus member Andy Harris said Greene’s voting history and criticism of fellow House Freedom Caucus members led to her removal.
Harris noted that the decision was “an appropriate action.”
“I think the way she referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other fellow, especially female, members,” Harris explained, referring to a heated incident between Greene and Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
“I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was publicly saying things about another member in terms that no one should,” he said.
Other issues leading to Green’s dismissal included her separation from the group on the debt bill and her support for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Following the McCarthy-Biden Debt Ceiling Deal, Greene criticized her fellow Freedom Caucus members for voting no on the bill, saying, “I do not live in Conservative Fantasy land.”
Reporting from Politico:
Members of the Freedom Caucus have been the driving force behind challenges to Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he tried to win the gavel and during a recent debt fight. Though those strategies didn’t completely unify the group, Harris said Thursday that after the Greene vote there were no other remaining “large divisions.”
