Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Republicans Who Make Deal With Democrats 'Biggest Traitors'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said Republicans who make a deal on infrastructure with Democrats are "traitors" if that agreement includes aspects of the Green New Deal.

Greene, who represents Georgia's 14th congressional district, took to Twitter on Friday morning to slam her GOP colleagues after a bipartisan deal on infrastructure was announced a day earlier.

"Republicans that make a bi-partisan Infrastructure deal with Democrats that includes the Green New Deal will be the biggest traitors in our party," Greene wrote.

She took aim at a provision in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework that would provide funding for electric vehicle infrastructure.

"For Dems, 'Infrastructure' is the Green New Deal that forces the US to electric vehicles. Fyi.. electric cars run on batteries," she wrote, sharing a screenshot from an article about Chinese companies' role in the production of batteries, which appears to come from news website SupChina.

"The US government should never mandate a massive industry change that puts us at the mercy of our greatest enemy," Greene wrote in a second tweet.

"Forcing the US to EV's will force us to be dependent on China who controls the battery market. Killing our US oil and gas independence is death to our freedoms."

Her screenshot appears to come from a SupChina report published on March 30 with the headline: "China is becoming the world's battery factory."

The passage quoted by Greene reads: "In 2019, Chinese companies accounted for more than 80% of the world's output of battery raw materials. Among the battery plants to be created in the next eight years, 101 out of 136 will be based in China. When it comes to batteries, China's presence is felt at every step of the supply chain."

The bipartisan infrastructure deal includes $7.5 billion for electric transit and school buses, according to Forbes. The proposals also include building chargers for electric vehicles at highway stops in rural and lower-income communities.

The White House said in a statement on Thursday: "The largest investment in EV infrastructure in history, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework will accomplish the President's goal of building 500,000 EV chargers."

President Joe Biden also mentioned the bus provision during a press conference on the deal on Thursday.

"There's $7.5 billion for electric buses—I wanted $15," Biden said.

Although Greene did not criticize any of her Republican colleagues by name, 11 GOP senators had signed up to the bipartisan deal. These were Rob Portman of Ohio, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Todd Young of Indiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

However, Graham has since told Politico that he will no longer support the deal because Democrats are planning to link the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill to another measure aimed at introducing "human infrastructure," such as home health care and child care.

Newsweek has asked Rep. Greene's office for comment.

Update 6/25/21 9.30am ET: This article was updated to add more information about the infrastructure deal.