Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) predicted a tough battle ahead for President Trump’s agenda-setting “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as the tax and spending megabill returns to the House following its dramatic Senate passage Tuesday, describing the situation as a “s— show.”
“There’s no way that [Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)] has the votes in the House for this,” Greene told political pundit and Trump ally Steve Bannon on an episode of his “War Room” podcast. “I think it’s far from over.”
She added, “It is really a dire situation.”
The House returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to try to hash out differences between its version of the bill and the one advanced through the Senate — which was narrowly passed after a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Vance following a marathon debate on its specifics. Trump has pressed GOP lawmakers to send the bill to him for final approval by Friday.
“We’re on a time clock that’s been really set on us, so we have a lot of pressure — and then also given the fact that there’s 435 members of Congress and it’s hard for us to get to an agreement on anything,” Greene continued. “So this whole thing is — I don’t know what to call it — it’s a s— show.”
“I know we’re not supposed to say that on the air, but that’s truly what it is,” the Georgia Republican added.
The House passed its take on the bill in May in a razor-thin 215-214 vote amid pressure from Trump, Vance and other White House allies.
Johnson and other GOP leaders have been trying to bring skeptical House members on board with changes that the Senate made in its version by this week’s self-imposed deadline that Trump has pushed.
“We knew we would come to this moment. We knew the Senate would amend the House product. I encouraged them to amend it as lightly as possible. They went a little further than many of us would have preferred, but we have the product now,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday. “As the President said, it’s his bill. It’s not a House bill, it’s not a Senate bill, it’s the American people’s bill.”
“My objective and my responsibility is to get that bill over the line, so we will do everything possible to do that, and I will work with all of our colleagues,” he added.
Johnson has also acknowledged that inclement weather could add another road bump, after several lawmakers posted online that their flights back to Washington were delayed or canceled.
