The Evolution of Marjorie Taylor Greene...

She was once one of President Donald Trump’s loudest fans, proudly touting her Make America Great Again (MAGA) credentials ever since she joined Congress in 2021. But in recent months, Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s political views appear to have evolved and the Georgia Republican has broken with the Trump administration on a number of issues from foreign policy to health care, showing no hesitation in calling out the president on social media. Below, Newsweek has outlined the policy areas in which Greene has clashed with the Trump administration. Newsweek reached out to representatives for Greene to comment on this story outside of normal working hours. Marjorie Taylor Greene has broken with the Trump administration on a number of policy areas in recent months. Foreign policy Greene has called for Trump to prioritize America rather than become entangled in foreign conflicts. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, Greene was the first Republican to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide, which Israel has denied, and urged her colleagues to support an end to supplying weapons to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s armed forces. In June, amid escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, Greene positioned herself away from Trump by speaking out against any potential U.S. involvement in the fighting. In July, she criticized Trump for continuing to send weapons to Ukraine, arguing on X, formerly Twitter, that “MAGA voted for no more US involvement in foreign wars.” Greene also criticized Trump’s meeting with Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, saying she would like to see “nonstop meetings” at the White House “on domestic policy, not foreign policy.” One Big Beautiful Bill Greene came out against Trump’s spending bill in June because it included a provision that would ban states from regulating artificial intelligence. The wide-ranging legislation, passed in July, among other things, extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, eliminates taxes on tips and overtime, and boosts funding for immigration enforcement and defense. The bill will also reduce the Department of Health and Human Services budget by $880 billion over 10 years. “I am so against that,” Greene said about the artificial intelligence provision. “And if the Senate does not take it out—people need to understand, I get to vote on this again. My voting card, I get to use it on the ‘big, beautiful bill,'” she continued. Government shutdown When the federal government was in its shutdown, amid clashes between Democrats and Republicans on health care subsidies, Greene called out Republicans for not addressing rising health care costs. “I’m going to pick on Republicans. Republicans never fixed it,” she said during an interview on The View. She also attacked the Republican leadership as “weak Republican men” and said “they’re not getting our agenda done.” 50-year mortgages Last week, Trump said his administration was looking into 50-year mortgage terms for homebuyers, though the plan is yet to be developed in full. The concept attracted scrutiny from policymakers and economists, with some arguing it would help people buy property with lower monthly repayments but others warning about endless interest. One figure, unimpressed with the idea was Greene, who said on X that the policy would “reward the banks, mortgage lenders and homebuilders while people pay far more in interest over time and die before they ever pay off their home.” Epstein files The House of Representatives is set to vote soon on whether to publicly release the full set of government records related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges. The vote comes after a petition to force it surpassed the required 218-signature threshold on Wednesday. There have been calls for more transparency in the case but mainly among Democrats. Greene is one of just four Republicans who signed the petition. She wrote on X: “I honestly believe it’s not only the right thing to do for the victims but it’s also the right thing to do for the country. Americans deserve transparency.” In response to Greene’s repeated criticisms of the GOP, Trump said on Monday that the Georgia Republican “has lost her way.” “I don’t know what happened to Marjorie; she’s a nice woman,” Trump told reporters. “She’s lost her way, I think. I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. And we could have a world that’s on fire where wars come to our shores very easily if you had a bad president.” For her part, Greene posted a statement on X in response, saying she has “definitely not lost it” and tha...