The US government shutdown extended into its 20th day on Monday with no resolution in sight, as a prominent Republican lawmaker publicly broke ranks with party leadership over the decision of Mike Johnson, the House speaker, to keep Congress shuttered for weeks.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a representative of Georgia, on Monday morning criticized Johnson’s strategy, calling on the House to return to session immediately.

“The House should be in session working,” Greene wrote on X. “We should be finishing appropriations. Our committees should be working. We should be passing bills that make President Trump’s executive orders permanent. I have no respect for the decision to refuse to work.”

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    No doubt, but how that motivation has separated from the unquestionable support of Trump is what is the most worthy hair. She is certainly the only one so truly and faithfully to stick to her alleged motives of Epstein transparency, and she has certainly the only one currently who has stuck to that, despite how it may be betray Trump’s current agenda.

    And that’s why we’re having this conversation. Welcome to now.

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      14 hours ago

      You asked what the turnaround was and I told you. Welcome yourself to now. I’m fucking sick of this place.

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        14 hours ago

        Yeah, and my previous comment did nothing but 100% agree with what you said before but also to further support your agenda. So perhaps you could explain it to me, but I’m not entirely certain why you’re getting so snappy with me right now because I am definitely on your side.

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          14 hours ago

          Read your first comment back to yourself and imagine it’s someone else talking to you. Your last two sentences of your first reply make you sound very snarky.

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            13 hours ago

            Pretty ridiculous to tell me that you know what I’m saying better than I do

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              12 hours ago

              I never said anything like that, so please save the gaslighting for someone else. I said your comments come across as snarky. This is my last reply.