Marjorie Taylor Greene battles fellow Republicans over failed censure resolution

Late Wednesday night, the U.S. House voted to table a resolution from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American member of Congress, over Tlaib’s comments about the Israel-Hamas war, with 23 Republicans siding with Democrats.

Greene, R-Ga., was not pleased.

She took to X to criticize her colleagues — and she named names. “Our country is in the worst crisis in it’s (sic) history in every category and the Democrats are full blown communists and Republicans can’t even censure Rashida Tlaib,” as she posted a list of the 23 Republicans who voted against the resolution.

Rep. Tom Massie, R-Ky., posted on X that he voted to table the resolution in part because “Free speech means protecting even the speech you don’t like.”

Greene responded, “They claim the reason they voted with the Democrats to table my censure resolution against Rashida Tlaib,” she posted, was because of Tlaib’s “full blown support of Hamas, w/words and actions, is her ‘free speech’, yet they are unwilling to use Congress’s free speech, which is censure, to condemn her!”

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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the Freedom Caucus, posted last night that while he agreed that Tlaib, D-Mich., had made outrageous remarks, “unbecoming of a member of Congress and certainly worthy of condemnation,” the “feckless resolution to censure Tlaib was deeply flawed and made legally and factually unverified claims, including the claim of leading an ‘insurrection.’”

In the GOP conference this morning, Roy told his colleagues that “words matter” and that Greene’s resolution misused the word “insurrection.” He said you can’t just throw out the word insurrection and misuse it because it is politically expedient, Politico reporter Olivia Beavers posted.

Greene responded by posting: “Until you force the enemies to live by the same rules, they’re going to keep stomping our faces in the pavement. Chip Roy will be reciting his powdered wig soliloquies as Americans are marched to the firing squads.” She also claimed that “the left” would send conservatives to “reeducation camps.”

Earlier this year, Greene was ousted from the conservative House Freedom Caucus after she called Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., an expletive on the House floor. Freedom Caucus members were also not pleased that she supported the debt limit agreement that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden negotiated to avoid a debt default.

She has since referred to her former caucus colleagues as the “burn-it-all-down” caucus.

Utah Reps. Blake Moore and Burgess Owens voted against the motion to table the censure resolution. Rep. John Curtis was not present for the vote due to prior commitments in Utah.

Holly Richardson is the editor of Utah Policy.