BY ANNE KARNI

New York Times

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a right-wing Republican from Georgia, did not appreciate being threatened by the White House over her backing for a bill ordering the release of the Epstein files.

So after a Trump official put out word that doing so would be viewed as a "very hostile act," she called a top West Wing aide to push back.

"I told them, 'You didn't get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district,'" she recounted recently at her office on Capitol Hill. "We aren't supposed to just be whipped on our votes because they're telling us what to do with this scary threat, or saying 'We'll primary you,' or that we won't get invited to the White House events."

"Me personally? I don't care," Greene went on. These days, when she encou

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