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Ted Cruz Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene 'Very Liberal' — Yes, That Marjorie Taylor Greene

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) found a baffling way to describe one of President Donald Trump’s most steadfast followers on Wednesday.

During an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Cruz tried to dismiss Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as “very liberal,” telling viewers that they shouldn’t “spend much time worrying about” what she’s saying.

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“What I’ve found is that whenever an elected official decides that they are going to turn on Israel and hate Israel, you will very quickly see every other policy out of their mouth become very, very liberal,” Cruz claimed. “And so, suddenly, Marjorie is for massive government spending and taxes and open borders and amnesty.”

Cruz seemed to be referring to Greene’s staunch criticism of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and how back in July, she became the first Republican in congress to call the crisis in Gaza a “genocide.”

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Curiously, Greene has also found a sliver of common ground with Democrats trying to reckon with an impending surge in Americans’ health insurance costs.

Congressional Democrats are holding out on voting for the federal budget until their GOP counterparts negotiate a possible extension on Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies currently set to expire at the end of this year.

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Knocking House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a Tuesday post on X, Greene demanded Republicans share their own plan for making health insurance “affordable for Americans.”

The Georgia congresswoman, who regularly invokes antisemitic rhetoric and rose to prominence as a champion of the QAnon conspiracy theory, also recently complained about being a victim of misogyny within the GOP.

In a Washington Post interview published earlier this month, she told the paper, “There’s a lot of weak Republican men, and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women. So they always try to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something and actually want to achieve.”