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Marjorie Taylor Greene blames Republican leaders for government shutdown

Published October 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:00

I can't conclusively say if that's why the House is not in session, but the House should be in session and the House should be in session for many reasons. We have appropriation bills that need to get passed. There is a new Democrat that's been elected that does deserve to be sworn in. Her district elected her. We have other bills that we need to be passing. And if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? That is going to have 218 signatures. (09:00–09:05)

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“I have some of the highest amount of death threats as a sitting member in the House of Representatives.”
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“Our family's health insurance premium went from $800 a month to $2,400 a month [after the ACA was passed].”
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“Many companies dropped out of the market. We've seen doctors stop having their own practices become hospital employees.”
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“About 60% of the calls coming in right now are calls of support and saying, yes, health insurance is a crisis.”
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“They're telling us stories about how they're already paying $2,000 a month with $10,000 deductibles.”
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“If the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't going to be able to have health insurance.”
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“We control the House. We control the Senate. We have the White House.”
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“I don't think it's good advice that a government shutdown is going to help Republicans in the midterms.”
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“I also don't think it's good advice that Republicans ignoring the health insurance crisis is going to be good for midterms.”
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“Inflation crushed people in the past four and a half years and the costs have not come down.”
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“People's wages have not gone up.”
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“We have appropriation bills that need to get passed.”
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“The relentless bombing of the Palestinian people, and many of them have been just innocent people.”
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“I'm talking about the Epstein list. This has been the most. I don't understand why. I genuinely do not understand why there's been any…”
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“The oversight investigation has the power to go much further than Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna's resolution, but they're not doing that.”
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“There's a government shutdown, and the House is not in session, so nothing is happening.”
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“The Oversight Committee has subpoenaed a lot more information than Thomas Massie's resolution specifically calls for.”
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