Not that the hypocrisy is in any way surprising, but...
Marjorie Taylor Greene is suddenly all for government spending.
newrepublic.com
I'm going to put on a weird hat for minute. Before doing so, I really feel like I have to say I don't like this lady and I don't like what she stands for. Going to a microphone to say that she's signed a letter asking for Biden to send relief funds, explicitly stating that the governor has already followed the actual procedure, is pretty transparent showboating and probably another thing that I'm not sure what to call. It feels like she has to write a letter because Biden isn't going to do it until he's really pressed to and that is patently ridiculous. Biden isn't looking over this with a critical eye. FEMA has its job to do and it will do it. Biden's place in it all is just as ceremonial as Georgia's governor.
But I don't think calling her hypocritical in THIS is really very honest. I'm not aware of a time she has opposed disaster relief on principle. She risked disaster relief being held up in this specific situation because of a principle she holds higher, but she doesn't pick the timing for hurricanes and she doesn't pick the timing for appropriations bills expiring.
I don't think she should like shutdown threats as a tactic as much as she does, but I think at least on most levels she's being honest that she thinks the government is doing a terrible job with money and this is the only way to get the proper attention for it. I think she knows that a government shut down at any time is going to cause some real pain somewhere and if it didn't the threat wouldn't serve her purpose.
I don't totally understand her purposes. I think a government shutdown would've hurt her party in general at a pretty bad time politically, not to mention hurricanically. But she often does things that hurt her party in general and does it knowingly. I'm not sure she expected the government to shut down last week. She may have known that it wasn't going to happen, but digging in got her something else she wanted. More moderate Republicans showing that they'll work with Democrats. She seems to believe that every one of those that outs themselves might get replaced by someone like her.