Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says Maduro capture is 'the same Washington playbook' that we're 'sick and tired of'
The Republican congresswoman has previously bucked the
president, and her last day in Congress is Monday.
Jan. 4, 2026,
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.,
slammed the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro,
saying on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday that the operation was part of “the
same Washington playbook that we are so sick and tired of that doesn’t serve
the American people.”
Greene argued that President Donald Trump and his
administration “campaigned on Make America Great Again, that we thought was
putting America first.”
“I want to see domestic policy be the priority that
helps Americans afford life after four disastrous years of the Biden
administration,” she told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, pointing
to policies to prioritize jobs, housing and health care.
Her comments come as lawmakers grapple with the
operation that captured Maduro and his wife and brought them to the U.S., with
lawmakers’ support largely falling along party lines. Greene has previously
opposed Trump administration policies that she argued contradicted “America
First” principles.
In Sunday’s interview, she said that “we don’t
consider Venezuela our neighborhood.”
“Our neighborhood is right here in the 50 United
States, not in the Southern Hemisphere,” she said.
On Saturday, Trump was asked by a reporter how running
Venezuela aligns with his “America First” agenda, after he said earlier that
the U.S. would “run the
country” until there
was a transition to new leadership.
“I think it is because we want to surround ourselves
with good neighbors,” Trump told the reporter. “We want to surround ourselves
with stability. We want to surround ourselves with energy. We have tremendous
energy in that country. It’s very important that we protect it. We need that
for ourselves. We need that for the world.”
Greene publicly spoke against the Maduro operation on
Saturday as well. The congresswoman said in a post to X that Americans’ “disgust with our own
government’s never-ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is
justified because we are forced to pay for it.”
“This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end,”
she said in the post. “Boy were we wrong.”
Greene’s last day in Congress will be on Monday. She
announced her resignation in November after a public falling-out with Trump,
despite having previously been a loyal backer.
Throughout the public fights leading up to Greene’s
resignation announcement, the congresswoman broke with
him on issues
including international relations, Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case
and Obamacare subsidies.
She has argued that Trump has not focused enough on
domestic policy, saying later in a CBS News “60
Minutes” interview
that “for an ‘America First’ president, the No. 1 focus should have been
domestic policy, and it wasn’t.”
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