A verbal spat between US Reps. Greene and Crockett highlights racial and gender tensions

A heated exchange between U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jasmine Crockett quickly went viral across social media.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visits the Georgia Senate chambers on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

During a routine House Oversight Committee meeting on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the controversial far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked the physical appearance of a fellow congresswoman.

Speaking to Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, the Georgia Republican suggested that Crockett’s “fake eyelashes” were getting in the way of her reading and understanding the point of last week’s hearing.

In response, Crockett called out Greene for having a “bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body.”