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House Republicans held a lawmaker-only conference call on Tuesday that grew tense when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., confronted Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on his strategy to navigate the ongoing government shutdown.

Johnson has been holding weekly calls to keep GOP lawmakers updated on the shutdown while instructing them to remain in their home districts rather than in Washington.

It's part of Johnson's pressure strategy to force Senate Democrats into accepting the GOP's federal funding plan.

However, Fox News Digital was told that Greene forcefully countered that Republicans' House majority was "being wasted" by staying in their districts.

BATTLEGROUND REPUBLICANS HOLD THE LINE AS JOHNSON PRESSURES DEMS ON SHUTDO

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