The latest friction between Donald Trump and Georgia Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene has exposed cracks in the MAGA coalition over perceptions that the president has failed to live up to his economic campaign promises.
Even before the longest government shutdown in American history, the firebrand Republican congresswoman had begun orchestrating an eyebrow-furrowing political shift by speaking out against Trump, to whom she had — by design — been closely aligned. Several GOP sources said this week they aren’t sure just what Greene might be up to.
Whatever her objective, she has managed to get Trump’s attention as he juggles a number of complex foreign policy matters and, after last week’s Democratic electoral victories across the country, economic headwinds at home.
