Marjorie Taylor Greene plays putt-putt after getting kicked off Freedom Caucus, looks to Trump presidency

Marjorie Taylor Greene plays putt-putt after getting kicked off Freedom Caucus, looks to Trump presidency

Fresh off the news that she has been banished by her fellow Freedom Caucus members and removed from the group, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she is not going to change her ways.

And in a subtle dig at her colleagues, the Rome Republican said she has more important things to worry about.

“The GOP has less than two years to show America what a strong, unified Republican-led Congress will do when President Trump wins the White House in 2024,” she said in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “This is my focus, nothing else.”

Politico first reported that shortly before members of the House left for a two-week recess in late June a vote was taken during a meeting of the House Freedom Caucus on Greene’s status with the group. On Thursday, Politico confirmed that she had been removed from the rolls, marking the first time a member has ever been tossed from the far-right caucus.

“A vote was taken to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Freedom Caucus for some of the things she’s done,” Freedom Caucus board member Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican, told Politico. Later, when asked if Greene had been kicked out, he said: “As far as I know, that is the way it is.”

Although Greene is well known for past incendiary remarks about other groups, a recent dust-up with U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert that included Greene calling Boebert an obscenity was apparently the cause of the far-right caucus’ ire, along with Greene’s close alliance with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Now that she’s out, Greene’s new status raises the question of whether her support for future measures will carry the same weight for McCarthy and his whip team, since a vote from the congresswoman will no longer imply the support of other Freedom Caucus members. It’s also not clear whether the episode will hurt her with her constituents at home in her Rome-based district, who have stayed loyal to her so far.

If Greene was worried about the fallout late Thursday night, she wasn’t showing it. Instead, she posted a video of herself on a putt-putt course sinking an 8-footer with the caption, “Avoiding distractions is the key to staying focused.”