MTG Says Trump Abandoned America First

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by Paul Dragu, The New American:

In another sign that the MAGA coalition is cracking, President Donald Trump has lost the full backing of one his staunchest supporters.

Georgia’s firebrand Republican congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is not happy with the White House’s interventionist foreign policy. She believes Trump is more concerned with foreign matters than an “America First” president should be. And she’s been talking about it quite often.

When a CNN reporter asked Trump about it on Monday, he said Greene “has lost her way.”

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On Monday, Greene wrote on social media, “I would really like to see nonstop meetings at the WH on domestic policy not foreign policy and foreign country’s leaders. Start by hauling in the health insurance company’s executives and let’s start formulating our Republican plan to save America from Obamacare and ACA tax credits that have skyrocketed the cost of health insurance!”

The context of her statement was Trump’s meeting with Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, whom the United States considered an international terrorist up until last week.

Election Results

Greene made similar comments indicating her dissatisfaction with the administration last week. She even blamed the poor GOP showing in last Tuesday’s elections on Trump’s neglect of his America First focus. She told CNN:

I believe in America First policies. That’s why I campaigned for President Trump and have supported him for as long as I have. And I do support him. But I want all of my colleagues to come through in action in supporting America First policies. I think the American people showed that on Tuesday. You’re not going to convince them to go to the polls and vote by bailing out Argentina. And you’re not going to convince them to go to the polls and vote by continuing to fund foreign wars and foreign countries and foreign causes. You’re going to get them to go to the polls and vote when you show up to work and actually fix the problems that they face every single day.

High Prices

Among the problems Americans face every day are high food prices, high housing costs, high automobile prices, high healthcare costs, and high energy prices. It’s true Trump inherited all of them, but his policies are widely suspected of perpetuating these high costs.

Greene has been one of the few Republicans to call out the president’s inaccurate claims that the cost of living is going down. Trump said as early as late last week that “every price is down.” Except for gas prices, this isn’t true. Americans who do their own grocery shopping and pay their own heating and cooling bills know this. The data show this as well. The federal Consumer Price Index says that overall prices were 1.7 percent higher in September than they were in January.

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