Marjorie Taylor Greene leads revolt against agreement to avert a shutdown

Conservatives revolted as Congress came to a bipartisan agreement to avoid a government shutdown.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced on Tuesday that “an agreement has been reached” on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations and lawmakers have begun the drafting process.

This bill will mark the final step in the appropriations process and keep the government open through this fiscal year, set to end on 30 September, just weeks before the 2024 presidential election.

House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger said she was optimistic about the vote.

“I could not be happier,” the Texas Republican who is retiring at the end of the year told The Independent. “I think we got it done.”

As of Tuesday afternoon, lawmakers have yet to release the text. It is expected any time, given Congress has until Friday at 11:59 pm to either approve the bill and avert a government shutdown or pass yet another continuing resolution to extend their deadline.

But Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a right-wing firebrand, told The Independent that Republicans were breaking the rules they claimed to value to pass the spending package.

“We're breaking all the rules,” she told The Independent. “Remember the precious rules of the Republican Conference?”

Ms Greene also criticised how the House was not even able to read the text of the legislation when Republicans had previously pushed for the ability to read bill text.

“Remember when we are all complaining ‘we can’t even read these thousands of pages before we have to vote on them,’” she said. “Well, we're now back to the house of hypocrites that I'm so sick and tired of.”

Representative Chip Roy of Texas, a hawk on immigration, told The Independent h