Lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, in Ten Words or Less, Gets HIPAA All Wrong

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday refused to answer questions from reporters about whether she’s been vaccinated against the coronavirus. She did so in a manner which suggests a serious misunderstanding about what federal law says.

Aaron Navarro of CBS News quizzed Greene about the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 and noted that fellow Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana finally received the vaccine on Sunday after holding out for several months. Scalise, after weeks of well documented trepidation, said he now considered the vaccines “safe and effective,” the reporter noted to Greene. The reporter also noted that Scalise is the Republican minority whip — whose job it is to keep other Republicans in line with the official policy goals of the party.