Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Love Thomas Massey.
He's one of my favorite members of Congress that I work with.
And Thomas Massey isn't always a no vote.
That's a lie that's been told about him.
i personally worked with him on a very important bill that we passed a couple of years ago and he and i voted on something that we swore we would never vote on and that was to increase the debt ceiling but the only reason we gave our vote for that is because we traded it for something we wanted
and we stuck together on it.
We wanted a 1% cut to the budget, just 1%, 1% and 1% is actually massive.
And this was Thomas Massey's plan.
He came up with it.
And so I partnered with him and we went to leadership and we pushed it and we said, listen, okay,
You can get our vote for the debt ceiling increase that you want that we didn't want to do.
We don't want to have anything to do with that.
We're conservatives.
But we will do it only if you promise to put in the bill a guaranteed 1% cut to the budget.
and we were willing to do it so we had a other group of really conservative republicans that were like yeah we want to do that too and so we did it and guess what that became law it was it was a guaranteed one percent budget cut and to me someone that really cares about our national debt and the ridiculous amount of spending that happens in congress year after year i was like this is actually a victory
But what people need to understand is that's the perfect example of Thomas Massey and myself, too, and others willing to work within the conference and willing to negotiate and willing to say, all right, I'll give you something you want, but you have to give me something that I want.
And that's that's what he's capable of doing.
And it was for the best.
good the good of the entire country my god a one percent cut in the budget that that never ever happens but here they lie about it every day and they call him oh he's no on everything and he won't vote for anything and that's absolutely not true and i'm a i am a witness a literally a living witness to watching thomas massey work diligently within our conference among
Republicans and saying, okay, I'll give you something you want if you give this to me.