Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene questions if Trump is still the 'America First' president

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a surprising critic of Donald Trump's policies — and as a torchbearer for the “America First” agenda that she says he has drifted from.

WASHINGTON — Ten months into Donald Trump’s second term, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has positioned herself as a surprising critic of the administration’s policies — and as a torchbearer for the “America First” agenda that she believes the president has drifted from, she told NBC News in recent interviews.

Greene, who has long been one of his most outspoken allies, said that Trump personally inspired her run for Congress in Georgia in 2022 and described her political identity as rooted in his promise to represent what she calls “the forgotten man and woman of America.”

“That was me,” she told Tucker Carlson recently, recalling how she saw Trump’s campaign as a “referendum to the Republican Party on behalf of the American people … that were just so sick of Washington, D.C.”

Now, Greene finds herself at the center of a divide inside the Republican Party over how deeply the U.S. should involve itself abroad, as surveys show the state of the economy is top of mind for many Americans and following a round of elections that focused on affordability.

“No one cares about the foreign countries. No one cares about the never-ending amount of foreign leaders coming to the White House every single week,” Greene told NBC News.