Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended herself on Tuesday after President Trump said the Georgia Republican has “lost her way” as her public criticism of the GOP on multiple issues has grown more frequent.
“I haven’t lost my way,” Greene said in a statement, provided to The Hill by her office.
“I’m 100% America first and only!” she added.
Trump on Monday addressed criticism from Greene, who accused the president of focusing more on foreign policy than domestic concerns by hosting the Syrian leader at the White House on Monday.
She has also slammed Republicans for refusing to release the government files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump said he was surprised by Greene’s statements and his longtime ally had “some kind of act going.”
“I don’t know what happened to Marjorie. Nice woman, but she’s lost her way,” the president said in the Oval Office when asked about Greene’s criticism. “I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. And we could have a world that’s on fire where wars come to our shores very easily.”
The president pointed to his sweeping tax and spending legislation, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which passed Congress earlier this year, as evidence of his focus on domestic policies.
“When somebody like Marjorie goes over and starts making statements like that, it shows she doesn’t know,” Trump added.
Greene, a staunch Trump supporter, has bucked her party in recent months on several key issues, including health care and foreign policy.
The Georgia Republican emerged as a rare voice castigating her party for failing to adequately prepare for the looming expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, which Greene has noted will affect many of her constituents and even her adult children.
Greene has also criticized certain aspects of the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda and has encouraged the president and Republicans in Congress to focus on issues that she views as “America first” and that address Americans’ everyday concerns.
Earlier on Monday, Greene knocked the president for hosting the Syrian leader, saying on X, “I would really like to see nonstop meetings at the WH on domestic policy not foreign policy and foreign country’s leaders.”
“Start by hauling in the health insurance company’s executives and let’s start formulating our Republican plan to save America from Obamacare and ACA tax credits that have skyrocketed the cost of health insurance!” she continued.