The Colorado Republican Representative appeared irritated about being asked for Matt Gaetz’s views on Kevin McCarthy.
Republican Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert snapped at CNN reporter Manu Raju in a testy exchange on Saturday about Matt Gaetz (FL-R) outside Congress.
Raju pressed Boebert during an interview on hardline conservative threats to oust Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy should he rely on Democrat votes to avoid a government shutdown.
Speaking to Raju, Boebert said Republicans should have negotiated with Democrats and was critical of an approach that did not scrutinize the funding bill.
Footage of the exchange that originally aired on CNN was uploaded onto X, formerly Twitter, by user @Acyn, where it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
In the clip, Boebert said: “We should have forced them to come to the negotiating table and come to conference and hash out our differences with these four appropriation bills before there was another payday that was at risk of being missed.
