Politico reports:

Donald Trump says Marjorie Taylor Greene has lost her way.

Greene disagrees.

The Republican firebrand, once one of the president’s strongest Capitol Hill allies, says it’s the president who is off course. He shouldn’t be trying to stop the release of the Epstein files, when so many of his most ardent followers are struggling to pay the bills.

“It’s insanely the wrong direction to go,” Greene told POLITICO. “The five-alarm fire is health care and affordability for Americans. And that’s where the focus should be.”

As the Trump administration struggles with how to respond to voters’ worries around rising prices, Greene is banging the drum that the Republican Party needs to be laser focused on the economy instead of getting sidetracked, in her eyes, by foreign crises and trying to block the release of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Georgia Republican, who has become a rare Trump critic within the GOP, has grown increasingly critical of how the president is handling the issue of affordability, issuing a warning ahead of 2026:

“This is me wanting my party to do something, to win and do something good for the American people. It’s not me going against, it’s me pushing my party to say, this is what we need to be doing,” Greene said. “Not only is it the right thing to do for America, but if you want to win the midterms, this is what we need to be doing, deliver for Americans if we want them to send us back in 2026.” [Continue reading…]