Greene, McConnell Clash as First-Term Lawmaker Plans Trump Meeting

Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) (L) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in file photographs. Getty Images

The top Republican in Congress on Monday clashed with a first-term lawmaker, in a sign of the growing split inside the party.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a statement to news outlets said that “loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country.”