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A private feud between two U.S. lawmakers made a splash on social media this week in the fallout of Congress voting to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from a committee, with both officials swinging accusations at the other.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to Twitter Thursday to accuse her colleague, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of being a “coward” and lying about her on national television.
The Democratic lawmaker swiftly fired back, accusing the Republican of failing to do her job in Congress by spending “almost no time” at her committee hearings.
“I have repeatedly asked you to debate me, but you have been a coward and can’t even respond,” tweeted Greene, R-Georgia. “But you go on CNN and lie about me.”
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A split photo of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene
(Andrew Harnik-Pool/Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
She added: “When are you going to be an adult and actually debate me on policy instead of run your mouth like a teenage girl?”
Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, answered: “Hey there! In case you forgot, we sit on the same committee, which debated for the first time this week. I don’t blame you if you forgot. You spent almost no time there.”
Greene personalized the feud in a subsequent tweet, saying Ocasio-Cortez, who was a waitress and bartender before entering public office, was “not even good at that.”
“AOC has never put her degrees to work in the real world to find out half of what they teach you in college are theories that don’t work,” the Georgian wrote.
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She added: “All she did was make a few drinks behind a bar, and she wasn’t even good at that, so she even makes bartenders look bad & I respect bartenders.”
While the two lawmakers often find themselves at odds, the most recent Twitter tiff appears to have started when Ocasio-Cortez accused…
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