‘She’s dragging our brand down’

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., went after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Tuesday, saying Greene was a threat to the Republican Party and was “dragging our brand down.”

“I think she’s uninformed. She’s a total waste of time,” Tillis said in a recording released by CNN and broadcast Tuesday night.

“She’s a horrible leader. She’s hurting our brand. She — not the Democrats — is the biggest risk to us getting back to the majority,” the senator added.

Tillis’ comments came after Greene criticized the House’s decision to pass a long-stalled foreign aid bill. The $95 billion bill, approved by the Senate on Tuesday and signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, includes aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as provisions that could trigger a nationwide ban on the popular app. TikTok video sharing.

The package sets aside $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel and humanitarian aid in Gaza. An additional $8 billion would be allocated to security in Taiwan and around the Indo-Pacific. The new legislation would also give TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, nine months to sell the platform or be banned in the US, a deadline that President Joe Biden could extend to a year.

Greene has vehemently opposed more aid to Ukraine, calling House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., a “traitor of our country” after the chamber passed the bill and introduced a motion to remove him as speaker for his role in advancing the funding.

“Mike Johnson has betrayed America once again,” Greene wrote in a post on X after the aid was approved by the House on Saturday.

“House Republicans and the American people would be stronger without their disloyalty and betrayal of their principles,” Greene continued. “We need a new Speaker of the House!”

Greene also criticized her fellow Republicans, writing in X“Here are the 139 Republicans who just voted against my amendment to take every penny of your taxes out of Mike Johnson’s $61 BILLION Ukraine war spending bill.”

Johnson said on Saturday: “I have done what I believe is the right thing here, and that is to allow the House to do its will. And as I said, you do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may, and I will continue to do that.” ”