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Greene first criticized Pelosi for continuing to require everyone to wear masks on the House floor rules punishable by fines and for saying she didn t trust Republicans to be honest about their vaccination status.
“You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” Greene said late last week on the right-wing network Real America s Voice. “And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
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Yet none of the GOP leaders responded to questions Tuesday about whether Greene should be ousted from the House Republican Conference, even after a new video surfaced showing Greene at a public meeting in 2020 saying she would not take down a statue of Adolf Hitler.
GOP lawmakers say Greene has placed McCarthy in an impossible situation. She’s become a huge distraction for Republicans and put party leaders on defense at a time they are trying to paint Democrats as weak on Israel after last week’s Middle East conflict.
At the same time, McCarthy, who has made Trump part of the GOP’s strategy to win back the House next year, is reluctant to directly take on Greene, one of Trump’s most vocal allies on Capitol Hill; Trump has previously defended and met with her at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.