MTG Has No Worries of GOP Pushback From Her SOTU Behavior: 'Not One Single Bit'

• Marjorie Taylor Greene told the NYT she wasn't worried about GOP pushback due to her SOTU behavior.
• "I have the speaker's support, and he has mine," she told the newspaper after Biden's address.
• Greene called Biden a "liar" after he called out some Republicans over Medicare and Social Security.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene may have received criticism for yelling at President Joe Biden during the State of the Union address last Tuesday, but she's confident that she wouldn't receive any pushback from GOP leadership.

During an interview with The New York Times, the Georgia Republican — who called Biden a "liar" after the president stated that some GOP members wanted to "sunset" Medicare and Social Security — contended that Americans would have been less diplomatic toward the commander-in-chief had they been at the Capitol.

"If the American people had been on that House floor listening to that speech, it would have been a lot worse names than I called him," she said.

When Greene was asked about potential pushback against her behavior by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, she expressed no worries.

"Not one single bit. I have the speaker's support, and he has mine," she told the newspaper.

While McCarthy had earlier warned the House Republican Conference to behave themselves, Greene instead decided to do the opposite. And other Republicans openly heckled Biden during his address, with the president openly engaging with them in a scene that would have been unheard of in Washington of generations past.

Even before his first day as speaker, McCarthy has struggled to reign in some of the most conservative members of his caucus. And his alliance with Greene is indicative of the sorts of relationships he has had to forge in a House with a razor-thin GOP majority.