Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted Senate Republicans for “playing games” instead of using the “nuclear option” to reopen the government, three days after funding lapsed.

“If Republican Senators wanted to pass the CR [continuing resolution] and reopen the government they could, by using the nuclear option to override the 60 vote rule and pass the CR with a simple majority vote,” Greene wrote on social platform X.

“We have 53 [Republican] Senators,” she continued. “This is what I have proposed all along, only I would like Congress to pass new Republican appropriation bills, instead of [continuing resolutions], and use the nuclear option to pass them through the Senate.”

The Georgia Republican added that the Senate knows how to do it, having recently used the so-called “nuclear o

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