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Far-right US Republicans are at odds over Taylor Greene
Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at a campaign event for ex-President Donald Trump. photo
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In the Trump camp, she is one of the particularly loud supporters – but an internal dispute is now costing Marjorie Taylor Greene her post in the ultra-right House Freedom Caucus.
Taylor Greene, who is known for harsh rhetoric, conspiracy theories and radical positions, recently described the ultra-right MP Lauren Boebert as a “little bitch” in a parliamentary debate. This was reportedly the trigger for talks to expel the 49-year-old from the Freedom Caucus, which includes a few dozen of the most radical Republicans.
However, the background may also be a strategic alliance that Taylor Greene had entered into in recent months: She had turned to the more moderate majority leader of the Republicans in the lower chamber of Congress, Kevin McCarthy. Among other things, she is said to have helped McCarthy get the right-wing unpopular compromise with President Joe Biden through the house in the debt dispute. After that, rumors of cracks in the Republican camp, which was particularly loyal to Trump, surfaced.