Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Sunday it was “unfortunate” a contentious House floor spat with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) became public, alleging the latter “leaked” it to the press.
Green confirmed last week that she called her fellow House Freedom Caucus member a “little b***h” during a House floor confrontation because both of them had introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.
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“Well, you know, I find it unfortunate that Lauren Boebert leaked that conversation that we had to the press,” Greene said on Fox News’s MediaBuzz with Howard Kurtz. “But once she leaked it out, I had to confirm that that’s, in fact, what I said.”
The details of the spat were first reported by Daily Beast, citing two sources that witnessed the conversation and a third that was familiar with the matter. Greene confirmed the story later to reporters, though there’s no evidence to show Boebert was the source of the initial report.
Neither lawmaker responded to the Washington Examiner after a request for comment on Sunday.
Greene said the “real issue” was that Boebert did not co-sponsor her effort to impeach Biden.
“I had asked her to co-sponsor my articles of impeachment against Joe Biden on the border, and she never responded and apparently refused to do so,” Greene said. “Then, when she introduced her own and forced them to the floor with a privilege resolution without even having the courage to talk to any other Republican in our conference before doing so, except Speaker McCarthy and apparently a few others, yeah, we had a tense conversation when she confronted me about things I had said about it.”
Greene has long urged her fellow GOP colleagues to bring impeachment articles against Biden, pledging to do so before she took office in January 2021. She introduced her impeachment resolution one day after she was sworn into office.
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The tiff between the two Republican firebrands comes as members of the HFC had a “wide-ranging” discussion late last week, including talks about the prospect of ousting Greene over “unprofessional” behavior. No decisions were made on that front, one GOP lawmaker told Axios.
Boebert and Greene have a history of infighting, including an instance where the two got into a heated argument in the women’s bathroom at the Capitol where Boebert told her, “Don’t be ugly” during the battle for McCarthy’s eventual House speaker appointment in January.
