Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, on Thursday expressed concern about the long-term consequences that could arise following pressure on the House Democrats to remove controversial first-term president Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee posts.
The House would vote on a resolution to remove Green from her posts on the House Budget Committee and the Education and Labor Committee. Democrats have moved forward with the resolution after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Ca., Condemned Greene’s behavior in the past, but refused to take disciplinary action against her.
“If successful, the biased attempt to deprive @RepMTG of her committee assignments will set a terrible precedent for the House – with no end in sight,” Graham said. “I hope her comments will lower the temperature today and enable us to focus on the important issues that the American people want us to address.”
Since her formal entry into Congress in January, Greene has been widely criticized for her support for the QAnon conspiracy theory and the unproven allegations of former President Donald Trump that the presidential election was stolen. Critics have called for Greene to be ousted after a scandal linked to her social media activity in the past, which revealed that she was “from” posts calling for violence against top Democrats ” had suggested that several of the country’s deadliest mass shootings, including Sandy Hook and Parkland, be hosted. .
Greene’s remarks angered Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who referred to “false lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party and our country.”
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Greene remained largely defiant in light of the calls for her removal. However, the first-term legislator expressed regret over her previous QAnon support in a speech before the House vote.
“I may believe things that are not true, and I will ask questions about it and talk about it, and that is absolutely what I regret,” Greene said. ‘If it were not for the Facebook messages and comments I made in 2018, I would not be standing here today, and you could not point a finger and accuse me of something wrong, because I have a lot of led good life of which I am proud. ‘