- Marjorie Taylor Greene voted in opposition to a invoice that gives over $9.3 million for her district.
- She’s touting that funding, which incorporates native airport enhancements, to her constituents anyway.
- It is the most recent instance of lawmakers having it each methods on authorities spending.
On March 6, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lit into her personal celebration in searing phrases as she voted in opposition to a package deal of payments to fund broad swaths of the federal authorities.
“Republicans don’t have any excuse for having introduced this minibus ahead,” the Georgia Republican mentioned in an announcement that day.
Greene listed a litany of grievances, together with the very fact the package deal’s six payments weren’t receiving their very own votes, the extent of presidency spending, and the truth that it funds the Division of Justice.
However that does not imply there weren’t issues for Greene to have fun within the invoice. And inside every week, she was doing simply that.
“Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is proud to announce that she has efficiently secured federal funding for seven totally different tasks for Northwest Georgia,” her workplace mentioned in a March 11 launch, saying the congresswoman “meticulously sought out” the tasks that acquired the funding.
That included greater than $3.8 million for an airport enlargement in Floyd County, $1.5 million for a water remedy facility in Dade County, and several other different tasks — totaling over $9.3 million. Greene had secured the tasks as so-called “earmarks” within the minibus she’d railed in opposition to.
Greene’s workplace touted a native story concerning the airport funding in an e mail e-newsletter to her constituents on Tuesday morning. A spokesman for the congresswoman didn’t instantly reply to BI’s request for remark.
The congresswoman’s maneuver is identified to Democratic critics as “vote no, take the dough.” Whereas Greene herself did safe the funding, one key function of earmarks — formally often known as congressionally directed spending — is that they offer particular person lawmakers a stake in authorities funding laws and improve the probabilities that they’re going to vote for the invoice.
On this case, Greene will get to have it each methods, voting in opposition to the broader invoice whereas having one thing to brag about to her constituents again house.
Altogether, 40 Home Republicans have achieved the identical factor this month.
That features Rep. Lauren Boebert, who voted in opposition to greater than $20 million of her personal earmarks as she faces the combat of her political life in Colorado.
