The outspoken progressive Democrat accused her Republican colleague of spreading homophobic rhetoric and blocking gun control laws.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, on Sunday called out her House colleague Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, for her anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the wake of the Club Q shooting in Colorado.
A mass shooting broke out at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub just before midnight on Saturday, leaving five people dead and 18 injured. Police have since taken 22-year-old suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, into custody.
