Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confirmed Wednesday that she is no longer a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus after the group voted to expel her after she called Rep. Lauren Boebert a “little bitch” on the House floor.
Greene’s dismissal from the group was in doubt because he refused to call back Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, who wanted to break the news to the Georgia Republican personally.
Greene told CNN on Wednesday that he hadn’t called anyone in the group because, ‘I don’t care.’
“I’m not interested in any kind of drama, or small talk,” she said.
Freedom Caucus members chose to reject her because of her treatment of Boebert, whom she had also confronted in a Capitol Hill bathroom during the January speaker vote, but also because she had endorsed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confirmed Wednesday that she is no longer a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus after the group voted to expel her after she called Rep. Lauren Boebert a “little bitch” on the House floor.
Representative Lauren Boebert is pictured leaving the Capitol building on Wednesday. Her altercation with Greene led to Greene’s expulsion from the House Freedom Caucus during the July 4 recess.
Boebert, on the other hand, was part of the ‘Never Kevins’ voice, which stopped McCarthy’s rise to the presidency by 15 votes.
“I enjoy being a free agent a lot more,” Greene also told CNN. ‘I’m interested in getting things done, not doing things just to interrupt and fight leadership. And that’s a big difference.
On Monday, CNN reported about deepening tensions within the Freedom Caucus, which was launched in 2015 by Rep. Jim Jordan, among others, to move the House Republican leadership to the right.
Now at around 40 members, the group has become unwieldy, with members divided on how much they should support McCarthy and whether they should officially endorse former President Donald Trump’s 2024 White House bid.
“Anyway, the days are numbered for the group,” a conservative lawmaker told CNN. ‘Because they go in 100 different directions.’
Greene supports both.
He has already endorsed Trump’s 2024 campaign and worked to get McCarthy elected speaker.
That goes against the original role of the Freedom Caucus, which was often to be the thorn in the side of the House Republican leadership.
“The reality is that they are mad at her for playing McCarthy and continuing to be a Trump frontrunner,” a conservative lawmaker told CNN. It’s pretty obvious. That is what has happened.
At the same time, her relationship with Boebert has frayed.
When the two women were cast in 2020, they were immediately linked in media reports.
‘QAnon goes to Washington‘ announced Roll Call, the longtime Capitol Hill chronicler, connecting Greene and Boebert to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, from which they have since distanced themselves.
Greene and Boebert were also compared to each other due to their brash temperament, their relative youth compared to most members of Congress, and their ability to rile up a MAGA crowd.
But Greene did just that, at the rally of a known white nationalist in February 2022, and Boebert voiced his discontent, producing the first media reports that MAGA’s darlings were not on the same level.
During the House leadership vote in January, the two women got into a fight in the bathroom.
Sources told The Daily Beast that “Greene questioned Boebert’s loyalty to McCarthy, and after a few words were exchanged, Boebert stormed out.”
“You were fine accepting millions of dollars from McCarthy but you refuse to vote for him for president, Lauren?” Greene reportedly said, catching Boebert off guard as she emerged from a stall in the women’s restroom in the Speaker’s Lobby.
Boebert responded to Greene, “don’t be ugly,” a source said, later adding that she “ran off like a schoolgirl.”
Six months later, their arguments spilled to the ground.
During the June 21 vote, Boebert can be seen approaching the dais, walking past Greene and then running back towards her where the two women were captured by C-SPAN talking animatedly.
The presiding legislator can be heard banging the gavel and saying, “Get your conversations off the floor,” at the conclusion of a round of voting.
At dinner’s time, The Daily Beast had reported what was said.
Greene had alleged that Boebert had copied his articles of impeachment, rather than simply supporting his bill.
I have donated you, I have defended you. But you’ve been nothing but a bit of shit to me,” Greene told Boebert, the sources said. And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to co-sponsor them.
A Republican lawmaker within earshot told The Beast: “I heard Marjorie call Boebert ab***h right to his face.”
And Greene officially admitted it.
“She’s been a really nasty little bitch to me,” the Georgia congresswoman told Semafor.
Greene said Boebert approached her to confront her about telling reporters she believed the Colorado congresswoman was playing impersonation.
“I was sitting down, so I stood up and said, ‘I’m happy to clarify my public statements to your face,'” Greene told Semafor. I told her exactly what I think of her.
On Thursday, House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Andy harris spilled the beans to Politico that members of the group had voted Greene out of their group.
He called the expulsion “an appropriate action.”
“I think the way he referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other members, especially women,” Harris said. “I think the last straw was publicly saying things about a member in terms that no one should.”
