‘Trash’: Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Nancy Mace over Lauren Boebert criticism

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“She doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine,” Boebert said in the video in an apparent reference to suicide bombings, taking aim at what she called the “Jihad Squad,” a spin on a group of far-left House Democrats known as “the Squad.”

Boebert initially tried to walk back the remarks when she came under fire but then defended them after a tense call with Omar. The Minnesota Democrat later called on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to hold members of his party accountable for “repeated instances of anti-Muslim hate and harassment.”

Mace then called out Boebert in a CNN interview over the comments.

“I have time after time condemned my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for racist tropes and remarks that I find disgusting, and this is no different than any others,” Mace said.

Greene later wrote on Twitter that Mace “is the trash in the GOP Conference.”

“Never attacked by Democrats or RINO’s (same thing) because she is not conservative, she’s pro-abort,” Greene wrote, suggesting Mace should “back up off of [Boebert] or just go hang with your real gal pals, the Jihad Squad.”

Greene then called Mace “out of your league,” introducing the slight with the wrong form of the term — a grammatical error Mace pointed out in her response.

“And, while I’m correcting you, I’m a pro-life fiscal conservative who was attacked by the Left all weekend (as I often am) as I defied China while in Taiwan,” Mace wrote. “What I’m not is a religious bigot (or racist). You might want to try that over there in your little ‘league.’”

The social media war of words is the latest chapter of a long-simmering feud between the two freshman lawmakers.

Greene’s claim that Mace supports abortion is unsubstantiated. The anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List says on its legislative scorecard for Mace that she has “voted consistently to defend the lives of the unborn and infants.”

Mace has tried to walk a careful line between criticism and support of former President Donald Trump, drawing fire from some of her fellow Republicans, such as Greene. Mace worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign but strongly criticized the former president in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. She toned down her criticism as the year went on but recently became one of nine House Republicans to vote to hold former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for defying the Jan. 6 select committee’s subpoena.

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Mace’s CNN interview also drew attention because she made remarks about the COVID-19 vaccines that some said appeared contradictory to another interview she recently did with Fox News. Mace told CNN she has “been a proponent of vaccinations and wearing masks when we need to” but told Fox that policymakers have not “taken into account what natural immunity does.”

She later wrote in a tweet that the comments “are not mutually exclusive. Nor are they contradictory.”