MTG: “I don’t know how anyone runs around their state [telling] people to hire them for their next job when we’re not even doing our current job.”
In a new interview with the AJC, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t pull any punches when ripping into fellow House Republicans Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins for not showing up to work in nearly 50 days and campaigning for U.S. Senate as 1.4 million Georgians brace for skyrocketing premiums.
While Carter and Collins haven’t bothered to show up to work in DC for 48 days, their constituents face potential average ACA premium increases of 296% and 345%, respectively, for an average 60-year-old couple.
AJC Politically Georgia
Greg Bluestein, Patricia Murphy, Tia Mitchell | November 6, 2025
- [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green]: I’ll tell you on the flip side, Tia, we have members that love not being in session because they might be running for statewide races and they just love being able to stay home and run for their next job.
- And I’ll be honest about that, I don’t know how anyone runs around their state [telling] people to hire them for their next job when we’re not even doing our current job.
- So I don’t, I don’t even know how their people are campaigning right now for statewide races.
- I just, the whole thing is—I have no respect for it.
“Even a MAGA extremist like Marjorie Taylor Greene can see clearly that her fellow Republicans Buddy Carter and Mike Collins would rather campaign for a promotion than protect affordable health care for Georgians,” said Democratic Party of Georgia Senior Communications Advisor Devon Cruz. “At nearly 50 days away from work with no plans to get back on the clock, who would ever believe that Carter and Collins would show up to work for Georgians in the U.S. Senate?”