Marjorie Taylor Greene Wrecks Trump’s Shutdown Strategy in Savage Rant

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Surprisingly, Marjorie Taylor Greene has emerged as a forceful critic of the GOP stance in the government shutdown fight. Greene just unleashed an angry rant at House Speaker Mike Johnson, pointedly accusing him of having no answer or millions of people who will lose Obamacare subsidies due to the GOP refusal to extend them. “He refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” Greene raged. “Apparently I have to go into a [classified facility] to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!” This wrecks Trump’s shutdown strategy: It sabotages his effort to blame the shutdown on Democrats wanting to give health care to undocumented immigrants, and shifts blame back to the GOP desire to take health care away from millions of Americans. We talked to Matthew Sheffield, who decodes the right at his Flux newsletter and in a new book charting how the GOP fights the information wars. He explains why this battle is fracturing the MAGA coalition, what that reveals about its deeper weaknesses, and what Democrats should keep in mind as the battle with MAGA intensifies. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.2	In a strange turn of events, Marjorie Taylor Green has emerged as a forceful critic of President Trump and the Republican Party's stance in the government shutdown fight.
1:33.8	And Green just erupted at House Speaker Mike Johnson over all this, excoriating him for not having a real policy in place to protect all those who are set to lose health insurance
1:38.5	due to the GOP refusal to extend Obamacare subsidies.
1:42.7	This really exposes the scam at the core of the Trump-GOP strategy,
1:47.6	and we think it also shows serious cracks in the mega-coolition. But why is this happening right now?
1:54.1	What does it say about this political moment, and how can Democrats exploit it?
1:58.8	Today we're trying to figure all this out with Matthew Sheffield,
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