Days after the Washington Post reported that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) “aggressively confronted” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Crotez (D-N.Y.) outside the House floor, a staffer for the controversial Republican congresswoman got into a heated exchange with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) over masks.
Scott Wong, a reporter for the Hill tweeted on Friday that Swalwell and Nick Dyer, the spokesperson for Greene got into a “verbal altercation” because the congressman was wearing a mask on the House floor, one day after the CDC announced that vaccinated individuals do not need to wear mask.
“Biden says you can take off your mask,” Dyer reportedly told Swalwell, to which the congressman replied, “You don’t tell me what to fucking do.”
Wong said he wasn’t close enough to hear Swalwell’s response but the congressman confirmed the altercation happened and that he’s not sorry.
“I had a mask on as I stepped off the Floor,” he tweeted. “An aide with @mtgreenee yelled at me to take my mask off. No one should be bullied for wearing a mask. So I told the bully what I thought of his order. Predictably, he went speechless. I regret I wasn’t more explicit.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sent a letter to members on Friday reminding them that the mask rules remained in place until “all Members and Floor staff are fully vaccinated,” NBC reported.
