On Tuesday afternoon, a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing took an unexpected turn when Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) asked Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) to “take it outside.” The taunt came after the two had a heated exchange.
The debate was sparked as the topic of civil rights and transgender rights came up, and Crockett suggested that a subcommittee on civil rights be re-established. She also criticized Mace’s beliefs regarding transgender people.
“I can see that somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now. So [Mace] is gonna keep saying ‘trans, trans, trans, trans’ so that people will feel threatened, and child, listen,” Crockett said, according to NBC News.
Apparently, that didn’t sit too well with Mace. “I am no child, do not call me a child, I am no child,” Mace immediately responded. This retort prompted committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) to try to call for order, though it was unsuccessful.
“If you want to take it outside, we can do that,” Mace said, talking to Crockett.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) came to Crockett’s defense, insisting that saying Mace had incited violence against her.
However, Comer ultimately ruled that Mace’s comment wasn’t about violence and stated that Mace could have been asking Crockett to go outside to “have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer.”
Mace agreed with the assertion, and doubled down on X that she wasn’t trying to fight Crockett.
“Let me be clear: I wanted to take the conversation off the floor to have a more constructive conversation, not to fight. At no point was there any intention of causing harm to anyone,” she wrote.
However, Crockett went on the app to give her side of what happened—and called Mace an “attention seeking loser” in the process.
“Republicans incite violence from the highest levels of government & ALSO claim to be the party of law & order...Last I checked, threatening members in a committee room doesn’t exactly reduce the cost of eggs,” she stated.
This isn’t the first time Crockett had to deal with a disrespectful Republican during a House meeting. Last year, she went viral for her alliterative quip after Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene ( R-Ga.) insulted Crockett’s eyelashes.
“If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blond, bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?” Crockett infamously asked Comer when he ruled that Greene’s words had not violated the committee’s rules.