There's going to be a lot of investigations,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said, describing what she anticipates if the Republicans regain the House majority this November. "I've talked with a lot of members about this."
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It was early September, two months before the midterm elections, and Greene, the first-term congresswoman from Georgia, was sitting in a restaurant in Alpharetta, an affluent suburb of greater metropolitan Atlanta. Among the fellow Republicans with whom Greene said she had been speaking about these investigations was the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy.
Just a couple of weeks later, on Sept. 23, Greene sat directly behind McCarthy in a manufacturing facility in Monongahela, Pa., as he publicly previewed what a House Republican majority's legislative agenda would look like.
Among the topics she and her colleagues have discussed is the prospect of impeaching President Joe Biden, a pursuit Greene has advocated literally since the day after Biden took office, when she filed articles of impeachment accusing Obama's vice president of having abused his power to benefit his son Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine. "My style would be a lot more aggressive, of course," she told me, referring to McCarthy. “For him, I think the evidence needs to be there. But I think people underestimate him, thinking he wouldn't do it.”
In Greene's view, a Speaker McCarthy would have little choice but to adopt Greene's "a lot more aggressive" approach towards punishing Biden and his fellow Democrats for what she sees as their policy derelictions and for conducting a "witch hunt" against former President Trump.
"I think that to be the best speaker of the House and to please the base, he's going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway," she predicted in a flat, unemotional voice. "And if he doesn't, they're going to be very unhappy about it. I think that's the best way to read that. And that's not in any way a threat at all. I just think that's reality.”