Rep. Marjorie Green says a group known as the “five families” meets regularly in House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s office to discuss strategy before the GOP retakes control of Congress in the new year.
Mrs. Greene, Georgia Republican, used the Mafia reference in Steven Bannon’s “War Room” podcast in claiming that Democrats are terrified of what the GOP has in store as it queues up investigations and other actions.
“What we’ve been doing, and it’s really interesting, people are arguing, people are clashing, people are also starting to agree,” Mrs. Greene said. “And there’s a meeting happening every week, and we meet in Kevin McCarthy’s office.