GOP Sen. Thom Tillis Says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Is ‘A Horrible Leader,’ ‘Dragging Down’ Brand Of Republican Party

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) lashed out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), stating that she is “bringing down brand of the Republican Party” and is placing the Republican Senate majority at risk.

“I think she’s uninformed,” Tillis stated in a clip played on CNN news anchor Erin Burnett.

“She is a total waste of time,” he added. “She is a horrible leader. She is dragging our brand down. She – not the Democrats – are the biggest risks to us getting back to a majority.”

The North Carolina senator’s comments came after Greene criticized the GOP’s move to pass a $95 billion foreign aid bill.

This bill, passed by the Senate on April 23 and signed by President Joe Biden the next day, includes aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and provisions that might lead to a national ban on TikTok.

The package provides $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel and even humanitarian relief in Gaza. Another $8 billion would go toward security assistance for Taiwan. 

The new law gives TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, nine months to sell the platform or face a ban in the U.S., a time frame Biden could extend to a year.

Greene has firmly opposed further aid to Ukraine, calling House Speaker Mike Johnson a “traitor” after the House passed the bill and introducing a motion to remove him as House speaker for helping to advance the funding.

“[Volodymyr Zelenskyy] thanks Speaker Mike Johnson (D-Ukraine) for sending $61 BILLION of your hard-earned tax dollars to fuel a foreign war,” Greene wrote in an X post.

“Johnson once again passed a bill with the help of Democrats while the majority of the Republican majority voted against it,” she continued. “Not only is Mike Johnson a traitor to our conference, he’s a traitor to our country.”

“Mike Johnson betrayed America once again,” she stated in another X post. “After doing nothing to secure America’s Southern border, reauthorizing FISA to spy on the American people without a warrant, fully funding Joe Biden’s DOJ that has indicted President Trump 91 times, and giving Biden’s political Gestapo a brand new FBI building bigger than the Pentagon, Speaker Johnson just sent $61 billion to fund the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.”

“House Republicans and the American people would be stronger without his disloyalty and betrayal of his principles,” Greene declared. “Now it’s time for my colleagues to go home and hear from their constituents. We need a new Speaker of the House!”

She also lashed out at her GOP colleagues who helped push the additional aid through.

“Here are the 139 Republicans who just voted against my amendment to strip every penny of your tax dollars from Mike Johnson’s $61 BILLION Ukraine war spending bill,” the Georgia representative wrote in another X post.

The post also showed an image of a list showing the names of the Republicans to which Greene was referring.

“I have to do my job,” Johnson told reporters after the vote. “I’ve done here what I believe to be the right thing, and that is to allow the House to work its will. And as I’ve said, you do the right thing, and you let the chips fall where they may, and I’ll continue to do that.”

Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado) condemned Greene for getting talking points from Russian President Vladimir Putin while threatening to remove Johnson.

Buck told Erin Burnett Outfront that Greene “is focused now on this Ukraine issue, getting her talking points from the Kremlin, making sure she is popular, and getting a lot of coverage.”