Dem Rep. Rips MTG After She's Outraged By Provision In Budget Bill She Voted For But Didn't Read

After the GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill, which is literally titled One Big Beautiful Bill on page one of the document, backlash from across the political spectrum was swift.

The bill enshrines Trump's tax cuts for the rich and includes program cuts for the poor and working class.

And passage required late-night, last-minute provisions to entice Republican holdouts to back the unpopular bill—which still only passed by one vote, with two Republicans joining the Democrats in voting no, two skipping the vote, and one voting present.

Now that they're getting hammered by their constituents over their support of it, more than one Republican is claiming complete ignorance of the provisions in the bill they signed.

Georgia MAGA Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) took to X to proclaim her ignorance.

She posted:

"Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years."

"I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there."

"We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous."

"This needs to be stripped out in the Senate."

"When the OBBB comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it."

"We should be reducing federal power and preserving state power."

"Not the other way around."

"Especially with rapidly developing AI that even the experts warn they have no idea what it may be capable of."

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There is some irony to MTG's opposition to this part of the bill since she recently spent time arguing on X with Grok, Elon Musk's generative AI chatbot.

In response to her admission, California Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell pointed out that it's a legislator's responsibility to understand the legislation they support since it could end up becoming the law of the land.

Swalwell reposted MTG's message with the caption:

"You have one job."

"To. Read. The. F*cking. Bill."

@RepSwalwell/X

While bills can reach the length of novels, members of Congress have staffers and interns to help them. In addition, the format of bills is standard, so reading just the section with the provisions put forth in the bill is fairly simple.

People concurred with Swalwell's concise message and had their own thoughts on MTG.

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Although some made excuses for Greene...

...but Swalwell had a solution.

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Greene's suitability for Congress has been questioned more than once.

Shortly after beginning her first term, she was stripped by her own party of any committee assignments due to her behavior, especially online, where she promoted QAnon and bigoted conspiracy theories.

Social media continues to occupy a great deal of Greene's time.

Greene started the practice of screaming, yelling, and heckling the President during the State of the Union—a new GOP tradition that Colorado Republican Representative Lauren Boebert joined her in, but that drew censure when Maryland Democratic Representative Al Green did it to MAGA Republican President Donald Trump.

After over four years in Congress, as of June 5, 2025, MTG has had only one bill enacted into law. And that was only by "other means"—meaning provisions from her bill were incorporated into another bill that was then signed into law.

By comparison, former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland served a little over one term—from January 2019 until March 2021—before being tapped by Democratic President Joe Biden to join his cabinet—the first Indigenous person ever appointed to a cabinet position.

Haaland—who with Kansas Democratic Representative Sharice Davids was one of the first Indigenous women to be elected to Congress—was the primary sponsor of five bills that were enacted.

Maybe MTG does need some guidance on what she's supposed to be doing in Congress.