According to a new report citing multiple sources, while the US House of Representatives worked to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the next speaker of the house, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) got into a fight behind closed doors.
The report comes from The Daily Beast, which cited the sources on the grounds of anonymity, and says that the two congresswomen had a near “screaming match” in the women’s bathroom during the House floor vote on Jan. 3.
While the first ballot was being voted on by the members of the House, Greene allegedly confronted Boebert as she was coming out of a bathroom stall, The Beast reported.
Greene allegedly accused Boebert of being a hypocrite and taking money from McCarthy during her re-election bid and then refusing to support him during the House speaker race, the source told The Beast.
“You were OK taking millions of dollars from McCarthy, but you refuse to vote for him for speaker, Lauren?” another source told the media outlet that Greene asked Boebert.
The first source told The Beast that the spat in the bathroom ended with Boebert running from the bathroom “like a little school girl” while saying, “don’t be ugly” to Greene.
This was not the first time that Greene attacked Boebert over taking funding but withholding support. In December of last year, Greene went after the Colorado Rep. on Twitter for refusing to back McCarthy, saying that she “gladly takes our $$$” either way.
In response to the comments, Boebert called Greene “unhinged” during an interview with The Associated Press in January.
“I have been asked to explain MTG’s beliefs on Jewish space lasers, on why she showed up to a white supremacist conference. ... I’m just not going to go there,” Boebert said before the House’s first speaker vote. “She wants to say all these things and seem unhinged on Twitter, so be it.”
In the same December tweets, Greene also claimed that Boebert refused to back former President Donald Trump during the online Twitter beef that has allegedly spilled over to in-person drama.
Despite the Georgia congresswoman’s claims, FEC records show that Boebert did not receive funding from McCarthy’s PAC during the 2022 election, USA Today reported.
The Beast also reported that Democrat Rep. Debbie Dingell (MI) was present during that alleged back and forth, but she declined to comment on what happened.
It took 15 rounds of voting for McCarthy to be named House Speaker after a group of Republicans, which included Boebert, finally changed their votes to allow McCarthy to receive the necessary number needed.
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