Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confirmed Wednesday that she is no longer a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus after the group voted to oust her after killing Rep. Lauren Boebert a “little bastard” on the House floor.
Greene’s resignation from the group was in question because she refused to call back Freedom Caucus chairman Scott Perry, who had wanted to deliver the news personally to the Georgia Republican.
Greene told CNN on Wednesday that she hadn’t called anyone in the group back because, “I don’t care.”
“I’m not interested in any kind of drama or small talk,” she said.
Freedom Caucus members chose to vote her out because of her treatment of Boebert — which she had also confronted in a Capitol Hill bathroom during the speaker’s vote in January — but also because she had supported 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 oust her after killing Rep. Lauren Boebert called a “little bastard” on the House floor
Rep. Lauren Boebert is photographed leaving the Capitol on Wednesday. Her altercation with Greene prompted Greene’s ouster from the House Freedom Caucus during the July 4 recess
Boebert, on the other hand, was part of the “Never Kevins” vocal, which held back McCarthy’s ascent to the speakership 15 ballots.
“I enjoy being a free agent much more,” Greene also told CNN. “I’m interested in achieving achievements, not doing things just to disrupt and challenge leadership. And that’s a big difference.’
That reports CNN Monday about the deep tensions within the Freedom Caucus, which was launched in 2015 by Rep. Jim Jordan to move the House Republican leadership to the right.
Now about 40 members strong, the group has grown unwieldy, with members divided on how much they should support McCarthy and whether they should officially support former President Donald Trump’s 2024 White House run.
“Days are numbered for the group anyway,” a conservative legislator told CNN. “Because they go in 100 different directions.”
Greene supports both.
She has already endorsed Trump’s 2024 campaign and worked to have McCarthy chosen as speaker.
That goes against the original role of the Freedom Caucus, which would often be the eyesore for the House GOP leadership.
“The reality is they’re mad at her for playing with McCarthy and she’s still one of Trump’s favorites,” a conservative lawmaker told CNN. ‘It’s pretty obvious. That’s what happened.’
At the same time, her relationship with Boebert has frayed.
When the two women were both elected in 2020, media reports immediately linked them.
‘QAnon goes to Washingtonannounced Longtime Capitol Hill chronicler Roll Call, who linked Greene and Boebert to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, from which they have since distanced themselves.
Greene and Boebert were also compared for their brash temperament, relative youth compared to most members of Congress, and ability to stir up a MAGA mob.
But Greene doing just that — at a well-known white nationalist’s February 2022 rally — and Boebert expressing his displeasure produced the first media reports that the MAGA darlings were not aligned.
During the January House leadership vote, the two women argued in the bathroom.
Sources report this to The Daily Beast that “Greene questioned Boebert’s loyalty to McCarthy, and after a few words were exchanged, Boebert stormed out.”
“You were okay with taking millions of dollars from McCarthy, but you refuse to vote for him as Speaker, Lauren?” Greene said, reportedly, as he caught Boebert off guard by emerging from a stall in the women’s bathroom next to the Speaker’s Lobby.
Boebert responded to Greene, “don’t be ugly,” a source said, adding that she “ran out like a little schoolgirl.”
Six months later, their arguments fell to the ground.
During the voting on June 21, Boebert can be seen approaching the stage, walking past Greene, then bringing it back to her, where the two women are captured by C-SPAN speaking animatedly.
The legislator presiding over the session is heard banging the hammer and saying, “Get your talk off the floor,” as a round of voting closes.
By dinnertime, The Daily Beast had reported what was said.
Greene had alleged that Boebert copied her articles of impeachment rather than merely supporting her bill.
“I donated to you, I defended you. But you’ve been nothing but a little b***h to me,” Greene told Boebert, sources said. “And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to co-sponsor them.”
A GOP legislator who was within earshot told The Beast, “I heard Marjorie Boebert call ab***h right to her face.”
And Greene admitted it on-the-record.
“She’s been a really nasty b***h to me,” the Georgia congresswoman told Semafor.
Greene said Boebert came to her to confront her about telling reporters she believed the Colorado congressman was playing a copycat.
“I was sitting, so I got up and said, ‘I’m happy to clarify my public statements to your face,'” Greene told Semafor. “I’ve told her exactly what I think of her.”
On Thursday, House Freedom Caucus member Rep. aand Harris spilled the beans to Politico that the members of the group had voted and kicked Greene out of their group.
He called the impeachment “an appropriate action.”
“I think the way she referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other fellow members, especially female members,” Harris said. “I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was things being said publicly about a member in terms that no one should.”