Lauren Boebert

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert got into a bathroom shouting match over Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

She switched her vote to “present” on the 14th and 15th ballots, passively ensuring Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to become House speaker](https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/mtg-and-lauren-boebert-barb-over-speakership/). Matters came to a head on Jan.

The two MAGA lawmakers were "nearly in a screaming match" over Kevin McCarthy, The Daily Beast reports.

"I have been asked to explain MTG's beliefs on Jewish space lasers, on why she showed up to a white supremacist conference. But their aversion to one another became more prominent after Boebert criticized the Georgia lawmaker in an interview with Their differing views were on display during the speaker vote, when the two weren't seated next to each other on the House floor as they had done so regularly before. Kevin McCarthy's, R-Calif., candidacy for House speaker, multiple sources told The Beast. Instead, Boebert sat in the middle section of the House chamber and Greene sat near the front of the chamber in a section of leadership loyalists. The mounting tension between Reps.

The Republican congresswomen were on opposite ends of the GOP fight over the speakership. Ms Greene steadfastly supported Kevin McCarthy, who ultimately won the ...

Representatives Andy Biggs of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia and Matt Gaetz of Florida also opposed Mr McCarthy for various reasons before ultimately relenting and allowing Mr McCarthy to assume the speaker role during a round of late-night voting. “You were OK taking millions of dollars from McCarthy but you refuse to vote for him for speaker, Lauren?” the Georgia Republican reportedly said. Ms Greene steadfastly supported Kevin McCarthy, who ultimately won the gavel, while Ms Boebert opposed him.

Greene confronted Boebert after getting out of a stall. "Don't be ugly!" Boebert shouted back.

The confrontation got heated and one witness later said that they thought Greene and Boebert were going to get physically violent until another Freedom Caucus member “stepped in to de-escalate.” Ron DeSantis (R), who is widely presumed to be challenging Trump for the GOP nod in 2024. Greene allegedly accused Boebert of taking money from McCarthy for her campaign but not showing loyalty to him now. During the 15 votes that lasted for that whole week, Boebert and a small group of far-right Congressmembers that included Reps. The two far-right anti-LGBTQ+ extremists reportedly got into a shouting fight on January 3, just as Congress was getting ready to vote for speaker of the House, according to several unnamed sources who [spoke to The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bathroom-fight-fueling-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-lauren-boeberts-break-up?ref=home). Greene, who is also a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus and got into politics after spreading QAnon conspiracy theories online, sided with McCarthy and establishment Republicans and voted for him each round while trying to get her fellow fringe Republicans to vote for him.