Even Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Expressing Regret For Voting For The “Big, Beautiful” Bill

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As Congress continues to weigh President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” at least two members of the House have admitted that they didn’t read the entirety of the behemoth spending plan before voting to send it to the Senate.

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X on Tuesday, June 3, to admit that she didn’t realize the bill contained a stipulation that limited states’ right to create laws about, or regulate, artificial intelligence for the next 10 years.

“Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years,” Greene wrote. “I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”

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She continued, “We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states’ hands is potentially dangerous. This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.”

“We should be reducing federal power and preserving state power,” Greene added. “Not the other way around.”

Additionally, the representative from Georgia’s 14th Congressional District promised that when the bill returns to the House for final approval after the Senate makes its changes, she will not vote for the legislation if it still contains the AI stipulation.

Had Greene seen the AI section previously, she could have prevented the bill from moving to the Senate in its current form — the legislation was narrowly passed by a 215-214 vote.

In addition to voting for its passage, she spent time campaigning for her fellow Republicans to band together and approve the bill, using language that implied she knew the ins and outs of what was included.

“While I may not like everything in the bill, there are many things I love in the bill, and most importantly it passes my President’s agenda and many of his campaign promises to the American people that I fought for along his side for years,” Greene wrote on May 21, the day before the House vote.

On Wednesday, June 4, after discovering the AI clause, Greene took to the House floor to protest the section in the bill.

“Here’s a lesson for us all: No matter what political party holds office and is in charge, we should all watch carefully the bills that we pass, ad we should be mindful of protecting not only states’ rights but the rights of the American people, and look to the future,” she said.

Though she’s a prominent voice in the MAGA movement, Greene isn’t the only House member to miss key parts of the 1,000-page bill before voting in its favor. Last-minute changes and a marathon overnight session leading up to the May 22 vote seemed to catch at least one other representative off guard as well.

Recently, during a town hall meeting with his constituents, Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood admitted that he didn’t realize a provision had been added to the bill to “effectively remove from judges the ability to hold litigants who defy court orders in contempt,” wrote Amherst professor Austin Sarat in a piece for MSNBC.

“This provision was clearly written with the current administration in mind,” Sarat noted. “Note its seemingly odd application only to injunctions and restraining orders rather than to any use of the contempt power. And recall the number of times since Jan. 20 that courts have issued them to stop the administration from violating the law.”

When pressed during his town hall, Flood was adamant that he did not agree with the section, which was added on page 562 and titled “Restriction on Enforcement.” Then, he admitted that he didn’t even know it was there.

“I am not going to hide the truth. This provision was unknown to me when I voted for that bill, and when I found out that provision was in the bill, I immediately reached out to my Senate counterparts and told them of my concern,” Flood said, to disapproval from the crowd.

The bill is currently in the Senate, where it is expected that some changes will be made before it is voted on in the House again and, if all goes well for the GOP, sent to President Trump’s desk.

While Republicans currently hold a 53-seat majority in the Senate — with most of them beholden to Trump — some GOP senators have expressed major concerns with the bill’s Medicaid cuts and its potential impact on the national debt.

However, as it’s a budget reconciliation bill, the “Big, Beautiful Bill” could ultimately make it through the Senate with a simple majority of 51 votes.

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