Marjorie Taylor Greene leads Maga fury as GOP leadership back crucial spending bill

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was furious on Thursday after Congress passed a bill that will prevent a partial government shutdown.

Ms Greene told The Independent that she opposed enacting a continuing resolution — necessary to avoid this weekend's deadline to have budgets in place — based on her opposition to US funding for Ukraine in its defence against Russia.

The Democratic-led Senate voted 77-18, and the Republican-led House followed suit, voting 314-108, in favour of the bill.

«I'm voting no to this funding bill, absolutely. I'm not going to vote for the CR,» she said.

She then claimed the war in Ukraine was «pretty much over.»

The vote split the House GOP in half, with 107 members voting for the bill, and 106 opposing its passage.

Republicans have long opposed continuing resolutions and a handful of conservatives joined a motion to vacate former speaker Kevin McCarthy when he passed a continuing resolution in September. In response, his replacement, Speaker Mike Johnson, pledged that he would not govern through continuing resolutions.

Rather, shortly after his election, Mr Johnson shepherded the passage of a “laddered CR” where part of the government spending would lapse on 19 January and the other half on 2 February.

But Republicans in the House failed to muster enough votes to pass 12 individual spending bills. Ms Greene said that voting for continuing resolutions essentially keeps spending levels passed during the previous Congress when Democrats controlled the House majority.

“We've been passed a single appropriation bill since we've got a new speaker,” she told The Independent, noting how this was the second stopgap spending bill to pass under Mr Johnson.

Under the new spending bill, spending for