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Marjorie Taylor Greene Shows Congress How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p>As House Republicans try to move past the rifts demonstrated during their three-week <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-johnson-may-win-the-speakership-through-exhaustion-and-delusion">speakership</a> quagmire, one person has emerged from the drama with few allies and plenty of enemies: Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/marjorie-taylor-greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA).</p> <p>Greene was a close ally of former Speaker <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/kevin-mccarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA). And with McCarthy out of power—and Greene largely ostracized from her former friends in the House Freedom Caucus, as well as the GOP rank-and-file who already disliked her—there aren’t many House Republicans standing with the conservative Facebook-shock-jock-turned-congresswoman.</p> <p>Greene’s diminished status in the GOP conference was on full display last week, as she introduced a resolution to chastise Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rashida-tlaib-hits-back-after-marjorie-taylor-greene-files-censure-resolution-against-her">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI) for her pro-Palestinian rhetoric and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-rejects-attempt-to-censure-rashida-tlaib-over-israel-comments">lost the vote badly</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-shows-congress-how-to-lose-friends-and-not-influence-people">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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As House Republicans try to move past the rifts demonstrated during their three-week speakership quagmire, one person has emerged from the drama with few allies and plenty of enemies: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Greene was a close ally of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). And with McCarthy out of power—and Greene largely ostracized from her former friends in the House Freedom Caucus, as well as the GOP rank-and-file who already disliked her—there aren’t many House Republicans standing with the conservative Facebook-shock-jock-turned-congresswoman.

Greene’s diminished status in the GOP conference was on full display last week, as she introduced a resolution to chastise Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for her pro-Palestinian rhetoric and lost the vote badly.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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