Rep. Chip Roy is not backing down from his demand that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apologize to Sen. Ted Cruz for her claim that he “almost had me murdered” by objecting to the Electoral College results. Ocasio-Cortez said compared the request to apologize to “tactics that abusers use” after revealing Monday night that she is a “survivor of sexual assault.”

“I was saddened to learn about the trauma that my colleague, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, described in recent days regarding sexual assault. Nobody should go through that, and I hope that she has received justice and experiences peace in the matter,” Roy, a Texas congressman, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.