Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) slammed House Republicans for “wasting away their majority” by “fighting amongst themselves” like “babies.”
McGovern also criticized GOP lawmakers for their recent internal strife, including “literally assaulting each other in the hallways” and getting supporters to threaten “each other’s families with violence.” The Democratic lawmaker was referring to some of the Capitol Hill antics that occurred amongst Republicans during the chaos to find a new speaker.
During his Wednesday speech on the House floor, McGovern continued not to hold back on Republicans, noting the party no longer operates under a “coherent political ideology” while Democrats are on “team normal.”
“They just want to scream and yell about how this place is broken when they’re the ones who broke it,” he continued. “But the American people see through it. They know this Republican majority is a disaster, a national embarrassment. They have normalized dysfunction.”
“We have Republican members of Congress literally assaulting each other in the hallways, threatening to punch people in committee hearings, getting into fights on the House floor and having their supporters threaten each other’s families with violence,” McGovern added. “They have wasted away their majority fighting amongst themselves and acting like babies, focusing on retaliation and revenge, pursuing ridiculous impeachment inquiry sideshows.”
Since gaining the majority after the midterm election, House Republicans pursued a possible impeachment of President Joe Biden over his family’s foreign business dealings.
“I say to people watching this at home, you’re not you might not agree with Democrats on everything, but we are team normal and Republicans are team totally off the deep end nuts,” the Massachusetts lawmaker concluded. “Democrats ran this place like professionals and Republicans are running it into the ground.”
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