Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of not reading Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" before voting to pass it

Washington DC - MAGA Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing accusations of having voted in favor of President Donald Trump's signature spending bill without having read it.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing accusations she voted in support of President Donald Trump's spending bill without having read it.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing accusations she voted in support of President Donald Trump's spending bill without having read it.  © Elijah Nouvelage / AFP

On Tuesday, Greene shared an X post revealing that she "did not know" about a section of the bill that "strips states of the right to make laws or regulate [Artificial Intelligence] for 10 years."

"I am adamantly OPPOSED to this, and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there," MTG wrote.

"We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years, and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous. This needs to be stripped out in the Senate."

Trump says he agrees with Elizabeth Warren and pushes bipartisanship to pass spending bill
Donald Trump Trump says he agrees with Elizabeth Warren and pushes bipartisanship to pass spending bill

Greene went on to vow that when the bill comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, "I will not vote for it with this in it."

While many critics agreed with her stance, her remarks were met with tons of comments accusing her of not having read the bill at all before voting in support of it, which helped it pass in the House last month.

A handful of her Democratic colleagues, including Reps. Ted Lieu, Mark Pocan, and Eric Swalwell, also responded, accusing her of not doing her job.

"Read the f***ing bill instead of clapping for it like a performing monkey," Pocan wrote. "You should have done your job while it was written. You didn't. You own that vote."

The AI provision explained

According to The Guardian, the AI provision of the bill, which was added only two nights before its initial markup, seeks to prohibit state and local governments from pursuing "any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems" for 10 years, unless the purpose is to facilitate deployment of such systems.

Trump's bill has been receiving heavy backlash from both sides of the political aisle, with critics pointing to its significant cuts to healthcare and social programs, and the trillions of dollars it is expected to add to the nation's deficit.

Some Senate Republicans have argued the cuts do not go far enough, and have said they may vote against it when it reaches the senate floor if some key changes aren't implemented.

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