The House Republicans’ Freedom Caucus has dumped Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG). Politico reported recently that the Georgia Republican got the boot from the cadre of conservative GOP lawmakers after her spat with fellow Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
The New York Post noted that Greene and Boebert clashed during a floor debate in June over competing resolutions each had filed to impeach President Joe Biden.
“I’ve donated to you, I’ve defended you. But you’ve been nothing but a little b—h to me,” Greene told Boebert during the exchange, which was reportedly recorded by C-SPAN. “And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to cosponsor them.”
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“Boebert responded by shrugging her shoulders and saying, ‘OK, Marjorie, we’re through,’” the Post added.
“I think the way she referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other fellow, especially female, members,” Maryland Republican Andy Harris told Politico on Thursday in confirming that Greene had been ousted.
Politico suggested the Freedom Caucus, whose more prominent members include Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Jim Jordan of Ohio, were frustrated by Greene’s close ties to moderate Speaker Kevin McCarthy and her support for the Democrats’ plan to raise the federal debt ceiling.
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But Harris said the expletive she hurled at Boebert was “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” since she was “publicly saying things about another member in terms that no one should.”
While the exact vote tally was not revealed or leaked, National Review reported that Boebert actually opposed tossing Greene out because doing so “would go against Greene’s right to freedom of speech.”
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