Speaking to reporters, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke about a possible government shutdown following former President Trump's guilty verdict.
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00:00What should, now that Trump, this conviction for Trump, what should the Speaker do in retaliation
00:07of this conviction?
00:08The Speaker of the House is one of the most powerful people in the country.
00:13We control the budget, we control the power of the purse.
00:17If Speaker Johnson actually supports President Trump like he claims, he should stop the special
00:23counsel, Jack Smith, and we should be using the power of the purse to hold New York accountable
00:28for the sham convictions against President Trump.
00:32The entire thing is political, it's outrageous, and our country is completely turned a corner.
00:37Even if it leads to a government shutdown in the fall?
00:39Yeah, it doesn't matter anymore.
00:41We're a banana republic.
00:42I mean, it literally does not matter, and that's how people feel.
00:45This has come to the point where they are going to try to put President Trump in prison
00:49with these fake felony charges and convictions, they're absolutely fake.
00:55The legal expense, yeah, that's what you write for paying a lawyer.
00:58That is literally what you write.
01:00We aren't a serious country anymore.
01:02We're literally a banana republic.
01:03So, what does it matter funding the government?
01:05The American people don't give a shit.