Far-right Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) traded blows on Monday in a disagreement over the subsequent Home speaker.
At a Turning Level USA convention in Phoenix, Boebert criticized Greene for backing present Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) for speaker.
“I’ve been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing loads of the issues that she believes in,” Boebert mentioned. “I don’t consider on this identical to I don’t consider in … Jewish area lasers,” she added, referring to one in every of Greene’s most widely-ridiculed conspiracy theories.
Greene shot again on Twitter, accusing Boebert of “highschool drama” and noting that the Colorado Republican gained reelection on a knife’s edge.
“I’ve supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. President Trump has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. Kevin McCarthy has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. She simply barely got here via by 500 votes,” Greene tweeted.
“She gladly takes our $$$ however when she’s been requested: Lauren refuses to endorse President Trump, she refuses to help Kevin McCarthy, and he or she childishly threw me underneath the bus for an inexpensive sound chunk.”
Within the wake of Republicans’ underwhelming leads to the midterms, Boebert declined to endorse Donald Trump’s 2024 bid final month, saying she was a “big supporter” of the previous president but additionally “loves” his potential rival for the Republican nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
She has additionally stopped wanting supporting McCarthy as he vies to renew the speakership with a slender GOP majority in January. She mentioned Monday she wouldn’t again him until there was a mechanism to take away him from the place.
Greene has damaged with an alliance of far-right lawmakers who oppose McCarthy’s problem and thrown her full help behind him.