Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants Trump Cabinet Position: 'Been Very Loyal'
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says she and others who have been loyal to President-elect Donald Trump for years are more deserving of being in the Republican 's next Cabinet than some of those being suggested.
Greene was discussing who could be in Trump's next administration during an panel appearance on the Real America's Voice channel after the former president beat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election . Host Beau Davidson asked the panel who they would like to see in Trump's next Cabinet, while offering names such as independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , tech billionaire Elon Musk and former 2024 Republican primary hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy .
Greene said these were "brand-new people" and MAGA loyalists like herself who have supported Trump longer should be considered before them. Greene, one of the staunchest supporters of Trump in Congress , was previously said to be in the consideration for Trump's 2024 running mate in part due to her loyalty to the former president.
Newsweek has contacted Greene's office as well as Trump's for comment via email.
"Those are brand-new people," Greene said. "RFK, Vivek, they both tried to beat [Trump] in the presidential race this year. So I'm glad that they're supporting President Trump, I want them on the team for their strengths, but I also don't think that we put them in charge of everything.
"It's important to realize who stood with President Trump from the beginning, never backed down, never stabbed him in the back, never tried to beat him. And there's those of us that have been very loyal. We understand his policies, we support them through and through. And I'd like to see people like us that have done that very much involved."
The former president has not openly discussed potential roles for Greene. On Election Night, on the Real America's Voice channel, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon asked the Georgia congresswoman: "Now, is there truth to the rumor that you're going to take over at [Department of Homeland Security]?" Greene laughed and replied: "I don't know what's going to happen..."
Trump has offered to allow Kennedy to "go wild" with health, medicine and food policy in his administration after Kennedy dropped his own presidential bid to endorse the Republican.
"I'm going to let him go wild on health. I'm going to let him go wild on the food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicines," Trump said at his Madison Square Garden rally in New York.
Kennedy, a vocal skeptic of vaccines, told Tucker Carlson at an September event in Wisconsin that Trump asked him for help in choosing leaders for key public health agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and the National Institutes of Health and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ).
"President Trump has asked me specifically to do two things. One, to help unravel the capture of the agencies by corrupt influence. In other words, to drain the swamp," Kennedy told Carlson.
In a statement to NBC News in October, Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said "no formal decisions" about Cabinet positions have been made, but that Trump has said he will "work alongside passionate voices like RFK Jr. to make America healthy again by providing families with safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic plaguing our children," referring to type 2 diabetes.
Trump has previously indicated that Musk, owner of X, formerly Twitter , could have a role in his next administration should he win November's race by leading a "government efficiency commission."
Musk, who endorsed Trump in the 2024 race, appeared to be gunning for a job under a future Republican administration, suggesting he would like to serve on a cost-cutting committee in an August interview between the two, which was streamed on X.
"I think it would be great to just have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just ensures that taxpayer money...is spent in a good way," Musk said. "I'd be happy to help out on such a commission."
Trump has also dropped hints that he wants Ramaswamy to be part of his Cabinet should he win the 2024 race.
"He's really smart, and I hope he's going to be involved in our administration," Trump said at a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in October. "We can put him in charge of one of these big monsters [in government] and he'll do a better job than anybody you can think of."
