At least six protestors were removed during Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) town hall in Cobb County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta.
Three people were arrested — two of them required stun guns to be used in the process — according to the Acworth Police Department.
“While attempting to remove the subjects from the event, officers were threatened, physically resisted, and harmed in the process. One of those arrested provided identification that placed them outside of Congresswoman Greene’s district,” Acworth Police said in a Tuesday night release.
“It is disappointing that a very small number of people actively worked to create a temporary disruption to what was otherwise a completely peaceful event,” law enforcement said.
At the beginning, Greeen told attendees that this “is a town hall. This is not a political rally. This is not a protest. If you stand up and want to protest, if you want to shout and chant, we will have you removed, just like that man was thrown out. We will not tolerate it,”
“If you want to sit and listen, you're welcome to listen everyone across the aisle, Democrats, independents, Republicans, this is a good place. You have a lot to learn,” the GOP lawmaker said at the Tuesday evening town hall.
The Hill has reached out to Greene’s office for comment.
During the nearly hour-long town hall, where she took questions submitted by the audience, Greene defended President Trump’s tariff agenda, the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) work that she said was focused on rooting out waste and abuse in the federal government and called, again, for federal funding for public broadcasters PBS and NPR to be revoked.
“Ladies and gentlemen, all of us together, no matter where we stand on the political spectrum, together, we're in debt at $36 trillion. $36 trillion dollars is no laughing matter. This is something that should pull all of us together as Americans, because Americans have been defrauded for decades, and that's a crime against you, the American people that has been committed against you by our government,” Greene told the attendees.
“This is something that we should all fight against, and I think it's extremely important,” the Georgia lawmaker added.
Greene, one of the fiercest defenders of Trump on Capitol Hill, argued that Americans are not losing their Social Security and the president’s tariffs are not going to be a tax on U.S. consumers.
“And I can tell you for a fact, no one has lost their Social Security or Medicare. I have checked with these agencies then that no one has lost it. This is a fear that is being spread, and it shouldn't be spread. Here's what is happening. We are stopping fraud. You're stopping waste<’ Greene said on Tuesday.
Regarding the administration’s trade policy, Greene said the tariffs are “not a massive tax on the American people.”
“The tax on the American people that you've been suffering with is the inflation that Biden Democrats put on the American people from their absolute reckless spending for the past four years,” the House GOP member said.
In early March, House Republicans were advised to refrain from hosting town halls with constituents in their districts. But some have done them anyway, facing backlash. Democrats have also faced irritated constituents, with attendees contending that liberal lawmakers are not doing enough to counter Trump's agenda.
Republican lawmakers and Trump previously said those disrupting the GOP member events are paid Democrats and are “Radical Left Lunatics.” Greene echoed a similar sentiment on Tuesday, saying, “let me tell you, this is funded. The Democrats have been rioting. They are the party of violence.”
The Georgia legislator also denounced the recent attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's (D) house. Cody Allen Balmer, 38, was accused of setting fire to the Shapiro’s mansion on Sunday.
“And I first want to start with recognizing Governor Shapiro and his family and say that I truly pray for them,” Greene said on Tuesday. “And it was shocking to see that attack of arson on the governor's mansion, and I completely denounce that a political violence and I dennouce all political violance.”
“And again, I'll just say this, we have bigger problems in America,” the Georgia Republican added. “We really do, problems that should bring us together as Americans and not divide us to the point where they're talking about killing people.”
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