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On the recordDecember 2, 2021
This government should be shut down. You want to know why it should be shut down. Because the people in here cannot control themselves. The people in here don`t understand how to balance the checkbook and the people in here do not deserve, deserve the responsibility on how to spend the American people`s money.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene
Republican · Georgia
Source
msnbc.com

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Marjorie Taylor Greene argues for the government to be shut down due to perceived incompetence in managing finances.

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