Lauren Boebert accused of swearing at Marjorie Taylor Greene during House speaker vote - New York Post

A tense brushwood betwixt Rep. Lauren Boebert and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was caught connected camera arsenic the House voted connected Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to go speaker— sparking speculation that the Colorado lawmaker told her GOP workfellow to get the “f–k retired of my face,” according to a report.

Greene, a McCarthy supporter, had confronted Boebert connected Friday nighttime aft McCarthy failed connected the 14th ballot over 4 days to triumph the speaker’s gavel arsenic the California Republican’s supporters pressed members to ballot yes.

“You request to stop,” Greene appeared to archer Boebert, 1 of a radical of astir 20 hardline conservatives who had been voting against McCarthy.

Video wide shared online captured Boebert, sitting adjacent to Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, responding earlier turning distant and ignoring Greene. What she said isn’t audible, but immoderate connected Twitter speculated it looked similar she had cussed astatine her colleague, The Daily Mail reported.

“I’m not a adept articulator reader, but I deliberation Boebert told MTG to ‘the f–k retired of my face,'” a idiosyncratic wrote on with a clip of the brushwood in a tweet that had garnered much than 60,000 views by Sunday.

Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado speaking successful the House past Thursday. Pat Benic/UPI/Shutterstock

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kevin McCarthy airs for a photograph aboriginal Saturday successful the House aft McCarthy won the speaker’s vote.Rod Lamkey – CNP

The testy speech was caught by C-Span cameras that had been showing the enclosure implicit the past respective days during the voting process. But the video captured by the cameras does not see sound.

The verbal altercation happened astir the clip ​Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) had to beryllium restrained aft helium lunged astatine Gaetz for opposing McCarthy. 

Gaetz voted “present” successful the 14th circular of voting to derail McCarthy’s bid for the gavel again Friday evening, adjacent arsenic others successful the “Never Kevin” contingent began voting for the California Republican.

McCarthy went connected to triumph the speakership connected a 15th ballot aboriginal Saturday morning. 

Boebert voted “present” connected the 14th and 15th ballots. 

Reps for Boebert and Greene didn’t instantly instrumentality requests for remark Sunday.