Rep. Eric Swalwell regrets he wasn’t “more explicit” with an aide of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s on Friday during a heated exchange over mask-wearing.
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Greene, a Georgia Republican, who has had intense clashes with Democratic lawmakers of late, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, told reporters on Friday about her staffer’s run-in with Swalwell off the House floor.
“My staffer nicely says to him, ‘Congressman, you don’t have to wear your mask anymore.’ Because of what Biden said yesterday,” Greene told reporters. “He chases my staffer inside. Everybody saw it and gets in his face, curses at him, saying, ‘You don’t tell me what to do.’”
Swalwell subsequently responded to Greene, saying in a tweet: “I had a mask on as I stepped off the Floor. An aide with @mtgreenee yelled at me to take my mask off. No one should be bullied for wearing a mask.”
The California Democrat added, “So I told the bully what I thought of his order. Predictably, he went speechless. I regret I wasn’t more explicit.”
Greene is under fire for chasing down Ocasio-Cortez and routinely demanding the New York Democrat debate her in the House chamber. However, the Georgia Republican accused other Democratic lawmakers of being uncivil toward her, claiming she was “shoulder-checked” by Rep. Marie Newman of Illinois and yelled at by Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri for not wearing a mask.
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Newman’s office disputed Greene’s allegation, calling it a “conspiracy” of the Georgia congresswoman.
