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Marjorie Taylor Greene insisted she has a 'great relationship' with President Donald Trump as she blasted her GOP colleagues inaction in Congress. Greene appeared on Friday night's episode of the Real Time with Bill Maher and was asked whether Trump was 'mad at her' in the wake of her vocal criticism over various party issues. 'I've got a great relationship with the president, I've always supported him and gave him my support for free,' Greene told Bill Maher. Maher pointed out how the Georgia Republican has 'dissented' on several hot button topics, including healthcare, ICE and the Jeffrey Epstein files. 'A lot of the things I say are against my own party, but they're mainly my frustrations in Congress,' Greene said of her 'angst'. 'I believe that Congress should be solving a lot of these problems. However, Congress is not solving these problems.' Her comments were met with applause from the audience of the liberal-leaning show. Greene has apparently pivoted away from strict party lines in recent months and even urged for a 'national divorce' following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Ahead of her appearance, the congresswoman ripped into 'Pathetic Republican Men' who attacked her for agreeing to appear on Maher's program, adding that she refuses to 'remain seen but not heard'. Greene told Maher that one of her biggest frustrations lies with her party's inability to correct what she believes to be failures within the American healthcare system. 'Here's why I'm angry: the Democrats have passed Obamacare, yet the Republicans have never done anything to correct the problems that exist with it, and I blame my own party, that's absolutely wrong,' she said. She admitted that she, like many Americans, is worried about the anticipated soar in health insurance premium costs. More than 20 million middle-class Americans have benefited from subsidies connected to the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. On November 1, insurance renewals and enrollments open, leaving households across the country anxious to learnt heir new rates. But the subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year and Republicans for now are refusing to negotiate their extension. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that dramatic increase will mean 4 million Americans will lose their health insurance. The explosive issue is core to the budget standoff between Republicans and Democrats, which has triggered the now monthlong government shutdown. Greene has been a fierce critic of the Republican Party's efforts to avoid a government shutdown, demanding they go further to protect the American public. During her Maher appearance, the once-fringe conservative congresswoman called out House Speaker Mike Johnson for his alleged role in not finding a solution that would reopen the government. 'Mike Johnson, for a month now, cannot give me a single policy idea. And I'm angry about that,' she said. 'The Democrats can vote and they can fund the government just like that, but the Republicans in the Senate, they can use the nuclear option, override the filibuster, and they can fund the government.' She added: 'The American people are being used like a piñata in this situation and I think it's completely wrong.' Greene's comments echoed a tweet she penned last week in which she accused Johnson of not taking real action. 'More of my Republican colleagues are finally talking about the unaffordable health insurance crisis, but yesterday on our GOP conference call Speaker Johnson said he has ideas and pages of policy, but did not say a single policy plan,' she wrote on October 22. 'I think that is unacceptable.' She blasted the Democrats for having 'created this nightmare' but also alleged her own party was 'sitting on the sidelines doing nothing to fix this healthcare disaster that is leading many Americans into financial ruin.' Greene urged her colleagues to, 'build the off ramp off of Obamacare in a responsible way' and find ways to incentivize the market so that healthcare costs are driven down. The outspoken conservative representative will also be joining The View for their Election Day broadcast on November 4. Whoopi Goldberg, one of the panel's liberal hosts, broke the news on Thursday, prompting swift backlash from both sides of the aisle as Greene continues her apparent pivot away from strict party lines. In response to the scrutiny from within her own party, Greene wrote on X: 'There are pathetic Republican men (mostly paid social media influencers) attacking me for going on Bill Maher's show and The View.' She shared a screenshot of her Liberty Score, a rating system conducted by the Conservative Review, a right-wing publication owned by Blaze Media. Greene boasted that her score was a perfect 100 percent, with her last 23 votes leaning conservative and none leaning liberal. 'Here is my voting card and nothing has changed about me, I'm 1,000,000% America ONLY,' Greene continued. 'Sorry I'm not sorry I don't obey Republican men's demands that I, as a woman, don't remain seen but not heard.' 'I don't answer to weak Republicans or so-called "influencers" on social media who think conservative women should just sit down and fall in line with the status quo. I'm not afraid to go anywhere and talk directly to the American people, whether it's Bill Maher, The View, or even CNN,' Greene said in a statement to the Daily Mail. 'Let's look at the life of Charlie Kirk. He spent his career actually engaging with people on the other side and having real conversations. That's what I'm doing too, and that's how we WIN.; Greene went on to say that she thought it was 'funny' that people who claim to be fighting for the America First agenda 'spend all day behind a screen attacking me.' This isn't the first time Greene has slammed the men in Congress, telling the Washington Post earlier this month: '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.' Greene also blasted Speaker Johnson for not recruiting and promoting women to executive positions, unlike his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy.
