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🗓️ 9 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Green rose to national prominence as one of the most vocal backers of President Donald Trump. |
| 0:08.0 | But the pair fell out, dramatically and publicly, after she called for the extension of expiring health care subsidies |
| 0:15.0 | and fought for the release of the Epstein files over his objections. |
| 0:18.0 | She prevailed in the latter fight, but has announced that she'll |
| 0:21.4 | be resigning in early January. Marjorie Taylor Green joins us now from her office on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:27.4 | Congresswoman, welcome to the News Hour. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:30.1 | Hi. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:31.6 | Can we just begin with some of the news today, which, as you know, is President Trump kicking |
| 0:35.7 | off what the White House says is going to be a series of events talking about affordability. |
| 0:41.0 | I know you broke with the president, side of the Democrats on this issue, specifically as |
| 0:45.3 | it relates to health care costs during the shutdown. |
| 0:48.3 | But I have to ask, you've seen the polling. |
| 0:50.6 | You've seen how Americans are looking at this. |
| 0:52.9 | Do you think the president has lost |
| 0:54.6 | the Americans' trust on this core issue of affordability? Well, this is an issue actually |
| 0:59.9 | I've been talking about for months and months. Americans truly suffered under the past four years |
| 1:06.6 | where we saw inflation skyrocket to 40-year highs in 2022. And while inflation has steadied, |
| 1:16.3 | prices have not really come down, except in a few key areas. But unfortunately, over the past year, |
| 1:23.5 | we've seen the president and the White House as a whole focus tremendously on foreign policy. |
| 1:30.0 | My stance, of course, and many others is no more foreign wars. |
| 1:34.5 | That means that we don't have to participate or fund them. |
| 1:39.1 | But we haven't seen a strong focus on America's economy and affordability, just as you mentioned, |
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