Marjorie Taylor Greene is back on the left-wing media circuit, and this time she brought a flamethrower for her own party. On Bill Maher’s show, she agreed that premiums are going up and then tore into Republicans, especially Speaker Mike Johnson, for not having a health care plan. If you are wondering how we ended up in an upside-down world where a Republican congresswoman nods along with Maher about Obamacare talking points, welcome to 2025.
Let’s get a few things straight. The Affordable Care Act was a Democratic project from start to finish. It passed in 2010, the exchanges rolled out in 2014, and, yes, many middle class families buying on the individual market have been squeezed ever since. That is not controversial, it is lived reality for small business owners and people without employer coverage. The latest fight is over ACA premium tax credit extensions that Democrats juiced in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. Those sweeteners expire at year end unless Congress does something. According to the account here, Senate Democrats keep blocking a clean House continuing resolution, more than a dozen times, to press their leverage. Republicans and even some business and labor voices want the clean CR to end the shutdown first, then negotiate ACA credits in the 2026 budget. That seems like the grown up route.
Greene’s critique that Republicans failed to reform or replace Obamacare since 2010 is fair as history. The execution, going on HBO to dunk on your own team during a shutdown standoff, is political malpractice. If you want a GOP health plan, work the conference, write the bill, whip the votes. If you want MSNBC applause, agree with Maher that Republicans have no plan and then blame your Speaker by name. Guess which one actually helps pass policy.
She also swiped at President Trump’s tariff agenda in a Tim Dillon interview, suggesting parts of it are tilted toward “crypto donors” and tech types. That is a serious accusation wrapped in a podcast sound bite. If she has evidence, present it. Otherwise it reads like friendly fire while manufacturers are trying to re-shore supply chains and the White House is trying to keep pressure on foreign adversaries. You do not have to love every tariff to understand the strategy, and you certainly do not have to casually imply it is donor service.
Now she says critics are sexist for pushing back on her media tour, and she posted her 100 percent liberty score as proof she is America First. Good for the scorecard. But disagreement is not sexism, it is politics. Conservatives expect their leaders to fight Democrats, not feed the left’s narrative that Republicans are incompetent on health care. If Greene believes Obamacare crushes the middle class, and she is right about that, then the answer is not clapping along with Maher. The answer is putting a serious reform framework on the table, rallying the conference, and passing the clean CR so Democrats cannot hold the government hostage over temporary subsidy boosts. Save the friendly fire for the range, not prime time.
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