Marjorie Taylor Greene Breaks with Fellow Republicans on Obamacare Tax Credits: ‘I’m Carving My Own Lane’

Repub­li­can fire­brand Rep. Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene isn’t hold­ing back—this time tak­ing aim not just at Democ­rats, but also her own party’s lead­er­ship. The Geor­gia con­gress­woman is demand­ing action as mil­lions of Amer­i­cans brace for a poten­tial dou­bling of Oba­macare insur­ance pre­mi­ums when a COVID-era tax cred­it expires at year’s end.

The issue has become a major stick­ing point in Wash­ing­ton, con­tribut­ing to the lat­est gov­ern­ment shut­down. Repub­li­cans accuse Democ­rats of try­ing to qui­et­ly extend the sub­sidy with no reforms—essentially con­tin­u­ing to fun­nel tax­pay­er mon­ey toward health care for ille­gal immi­grants.

Greene, how­ev­er, says the real vic­tims will be hard­work­ing Amer­i­can fam­i­lies. In a fiery post on X, she declared she’s “going to go against every­one on this issue because when the tax cred­its expire this year, my own adult children’s insur­ance pre­mi­ums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the won­der­ful fam­i­lies and hard-work­ing peo­ple in my dis­trict.”

“No, I’m not tow­ing the par­ty line or play­ing loy­al­ty games,” Greene wrote. “I’m a Repub­li­can and won’t vote for ille­gals to have any tax­pay­er-fund­ed health­care or ben­e­fits. I’m AMERICA ONLY! I’m carv­ing my own lane.”

Greene blast­ed Washington’s lack of lead­er­ship, call­ing out both par­ties for ignor­ing the real eco­nom­ic pain fac­ing mid­dle-class Amer­i­cans.

“Not a sin­gle Repub­li­can in lead­er­ship has talked to us about this or giv­en us a plan to help Amer­i­cans deal with their health insur­ance pre­mi­ums DOUBLING,” she said, adding that “insur­ance is a scam” and that Amer­i­cans have been left hold­ing the bill for years of failed gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy.

Accord­ing to data cit­ed by Greene from KFF, when the “enhanced pre­mi­um tax cred­its” expire, Oba­macare pre­mi­ums could more than dou­ble. These cred­its, first intro­duced dur­ing the pan­dem­ic and lat­er extend­ed through the Infla­tion Reduc­tion Act, sig­nif­i­cant­ly expand­ed eli­gi­bil­i­ty and gov­ern­ment subsidies—even for indi­vid­u­als mak­ing over 400% of the fed­er­al pover­ty line.

Greene’s out­rage comes amid her ongo­ing crit­i­cism of U.S. for­eign aid to Israel and Ukraine, which she argues diverts bil­lions away from strug­gling Amer­i­can fam­i­lies.

“Our coun­try sent $30 bil­lion to Israel in 2024 alone, killing count­less inno­cent chil­dren, and sent HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS to Ukraine,” she wrote. “I vot­ed NO to all of that. Amer­i­ca has fund­ed the Ukrain­ian gov­ern­ment, pen­sions, and busi­ness­es dur­ing this stu­pid war we should have noth­ing to do with.”

She con­tin­ued, blast­ing Con­gress for what she calls a betray­al of the Amer­i­can tax­pay­er:

“All our coun­try does is fund for­eign wars while Amer­i­cans can’t afford their own health care. It’s absolute­ly shame­ful, dis­gust­ing, and trai­tor­ous.”

Greene vowed to work on a plan focused sole­ly on Amer­i­can cit­i­zens:

“NO FUNDING FOR ILLEGALS AND ANY BENEFITS FOR THEM, BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE INSANE COST OF INSURANCE FOR AMERICANS. I’m here in Wash­ing­ton this week to meet with any­one who is AMERICA ONLY and will work with me on a plan for AMERICANS ONLY.”

Mean­while, Sen­ate Repub­li­can Whip John Thune acknowl­edged the issue but blamed Democ­rats for cre­at­ing the mess.

“They put the expi­ra­tion date in place. They expand­ed these COVID-era tax cred­its, and now they want Repub­li­cans to bail them out,” Thune said. “We’re not going to have that con­ver­sa­tion until the gov­ern­ment gets opened up.”

Thune empha­sized that the pro­gram needs reform, call­ing the ACA tax cred­its “rife with fraud, waste, and abuse.”

“They’re noth­ing more than sub­si­dies to insur­ance com­pa­nies,” he said. “There’s no income cap—you can make half a mil­lion dol­lars and still get fed­er­al assis­tance. It’s des­per­ate­ly in need of reform.”

As the shut­down drags on, Greene’s mes­sage is clear: stop fund­ing for­eign wars and start fix­ing the prob­lems fac­ing real Amer­i­cans—the tax­pay­ers foot­ing the bill.