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In an interview with gun activist Chris Dorr on October 27, 2020, a week before election day, Greene told viewers: "the only way you get your freedoms back is it's earned with the price of blood." On January 29, 2021, The New York Times detailed Greene's support for and past ties with militia groups, including the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers; both groups had members participate in the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz introduced a motion to remove Greene from her committee assignments, saying that Greene's behavior is "appalling" and "has helped fuel domestic terrorism, endangered lives of her colleagues and brought shame on the entire House of Representatives." On February 1, 2021, House majority leader Steny Hoyer gave McCarthy and other Republican House leaders an ultimatum: unless they stripped Greene of her committee seats within 72 hours, the Democrats would bring Wasserman Schultz's motion before the full House. In turn, McCarthy called some of Greene's comments "deeply disturbing".
During a speech at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, Greene adamantly opposed foreign aid, saying: "I wanted to take my regular, normal person, normal, everyday American values, which is: We love our country. We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America, not for... China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam – whatever, wherever." This remark about Guam, which is a U.S. territory whose residents are U.S. citizens, prompted Guam delegate Michael San Nicolas to offer Greene Chamorro chip cookies in what he calls "cookie diplomacy." Guam governor Lou Leon Guerrero told the Guam Daily Post that her office would be, "more than happy to send Representative Greene's office a copy of Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam ."
In a July 14 runoff debate sponsored by the Walker County Republican Party, Greene claimed that she was "all about making jobs here in America" and had "created thousands of jobs in the United States" as a business owner. During the same debate, Cowan questioned Greene's acceptance of Paycheck Protection Program money despite her opposition to congressional appropriations of relief funds during the pandemic. Greene's business, Taylor Commercial, received $182,300 in PPP funding from the Small Business Administration during the COVID-19 pandemic. SBA filings declared Taylor Commercial expected to save 12 jobs with the funds.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Republican Jewish Coalition condemned Greene's statements. The progressive advocacy organization People For the American Way called for the House to expel Greene.
Prominent Republicans who supported Greene in her candidacy included Donald Trump; U.S. representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Matt Gaetz of Florida; Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk; and Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows. Meadows's wife, Debbie Meadows, is the executive director of RightWomen Pac, which endorsed Greene and contributed $17,500 to her runoff campaign. Other donors included Barb Van Andel-Gaby – the chair of board of the Heritage Foundation – and attorney L. Lin Wood, who later promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. Greene also received support from the House Freedom Fund, a political action committee and the campaign fundraising arm of the House Freedom Caucus. The Georgia Republican Party contributed $5,220 to her campaign treasury on March 2, 2020.
presidential election to Joe Biden. During the counting of electoral votes, Greene raised an objection to counting Michigan's electoral votes. The objection was not signed by a member of the U.S. Senate and therefore was rejected.