Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert is digging her heels on Wednesday amid an onslaught of bipartisan criticism for harassing the president Joe BidenState of the Union address while he mentions his dead son Beau.
'Lefts are angry because I called for Biden's failed return Afghanistan Who left 13 of America's finest in a coffin wrapped in a flag,' wrote Boebert Twitter,
'They are mad because a speech was "interrupted". Ask the families who have lost their loved ones how disrupted their lives are now.
She previously defended herself, writing on stage late Tuesday that 'I can't keep quiet when Biden said the flag-wrapped coffin'.
Boebert earned 'boos' from the House chamber on Tuesday night when calling for Biden's return to Afghanistan while he was talking about the cancer-causing burn pits affecting military service members. He believes that such potholes led to his late son's early death at the age of 46.
The address, which lasted roughly an hour, included bipartisan applause as well as loud laughter from Boebert and his fellow GOP representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Green.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that Boebert and Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene "said a lot more about them" than Biden's State of the Union address did to the president's agenda.
The Colorado Republican doubled down on his controversial remarks during Biden's State of the Union address in a new tweet Wednesday morning
Boebert (left) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (right) lashed out at the president at several points during his big Tuesday night address
Senate Minority Whip John Thune, the number two Senate Republican behind leader Mitch McConnell, denounced the pair's "antics" during a CBS Mornings interview the day after Biden's speech.
'I don't think there's a place for it. this is unfair. The State of the Union speech, whether you agree with the president or not, is an opportunity to show the American people the respect the office deserves,' Thune said.
The South Dakota Republican was cryptic when asked whether his fellow GOP lawmakers would issue a public condemnation.
'You know, normally the House would, you know, do – if any steps were to be taken, the leadership of the House would probably do that. But I think there will be a lot of condemnation from people, colleagues and what not, and there will be just a recognition that such actions are inappropriate in this kind of setting,' he said.
'And I think anyone would agree.'
Democrat Representative Eric Swellwell called Boebert and Green an "disgrace" and called on House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to condemn them.
'The President was talking about his dead soldier son. you and [Greene] Tonight was a national disgrace. But even worse – because you're irrelevant – Kevin McCarthy is the boss of it all. He won't condemn you because he's a huge coward,' Swellwell wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki shrugs off his behavior and says it says 'a lot more about him' than Biden's agenda
McCarthy has remained silent on the matter so far, although he did give a standing ovation to Biden at one point during his speech, when he called for betting on police funding.
Asked about it on MSNBC Tuesday morning, Psaki dismissed Boebert's protest.
The press secretary said on television on Wednesday morning, "I have to tell you that during the uproar that I was watching on TV with my team, a group of team members and colleagues, and we were all excited and excited. " Interview.
'And that was the moment the President was talking about his unity agenda, and talking about the priorities that we should all agree on.'
The president's four-pronged unity agenda, which he laid out on Tuesday night, includes efforts to do more for veterans who fall ill after inhaling fumes from toxic burn pits that have been taken abroad. Commonly used by deployed soldiers for disposal of garbage.
"They come home, many of the fittest in the world and the best trained warriors in the world, are never the same," Biden grieved before seeing the effects of his own personal experience.
'Headache. Numbness. Dizziness. A Cancer that would put them in a coffin wrapped in flags. I know.'
Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the number two Senate Republican, slammed the new lawmakers' antics.
California Democrat Representative Eric Swellwell also jumped into the fray, calling Boebert a 'national disgrace'
At the same time Boebert shouted: 'A cancer that put him in a coffin wrapped in a flag.'
'You put them in. Thirteen of them!' She shouted in reference to the 13 US service members killed during the security of Kabul airport in Afghanistan last year.
"There is no question that we should do more to help our country's veterans who have been hurt by the effects of the burn pits," Saki said on Wednesday morning. Of course, we need to do more to work together to cure cancer.'
'And they were circling around that time and the moment. I think about how important these priorities are, and that the vast majority of people sitting in that chamber last night speaks volumes about them far more than they can work together to solve those problems,' the press secretary added.
Unlike other points in Biden's speech, which earned bipartisan applause, Boebert's outburst drew only boos from Democrats.
Both Boebert and Georgia Representative Greene turned their backs on Biden as he entered the House chamber for his State of the Union address.
At another point during the speech, when the president called for sweeping reform to solve the Southwest border crisis and the US immigration system, the firebrands used one of Donald Trump's signature promises to 'build the wall' to conservatives. could be heard.
