Democrats believe Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are fighting and attacking each other over Matt Gaetz

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Democrats believe Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are fighting and attacking each other over Matt Gaetz.

Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) hold opposing views over whether to support Kevin McCarthy for speaker of the House — and Boebert made that clear with a dig at Greene, who has emerged as one of McCarthy’s biggest backers for the gavel. 

Brooklyn Dad wrote: “I’m hearing that Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Three-Toes Greene are fighting over Matt Gaetz, and now my appetite may never recover. 🤢.”

Greene’s ire was stoked by a video showing Boebert with Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk at its “AmericaFest” event.

Kirk asked Boebert and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, also listed as a speaker at the event, what they thought of Greene’s endorsement of Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be the next House speaker.

Neither Gaetz nor Boebert were fans of the idea. While Gaetz politely disagreed, Boebert was more personal.

“Well you know, I’ve been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing a lot of the things that she believes in,” said Boebert. “I don’t believe in this, just like I don’t believe in Russian space lasers, Jewish space lasers and all of this.”

The remark was a reference to a since-deleted 2018 Facebook post in which Greene speculated that that year’s wildfires in California were caused by lasers controlled by politicians and Jewish bankers.

Greene took exception, and responded to Boebert by tweeting the clip while noting that the congresswoman “just barely came through by 500 votes” in the 2022 midterms despite support from Greene, former President Donald Trump, and McCarthy.

Boebert survived an extraordinarily tight race for Colorado’s Third Congressional District in the midterms.

The contest was close enough to prompt a legally-required recount, which confirmed that she won by 546 votes.

In her thread, Greene complained that Boebert didn’t endorse Trump or McCarthy even after she “gladly takes our $$$” in getting re-elected.

“And she childishly threw me under the bus for a cheap sound bite,” Greene added, in a likely reference to Boebert’s “space lasers” quip.

“Americans expect conservative fighters like us to work together to Save America and that is the only mission I’m 100% devoted to, not high school drama and media sound bites,” Greene said in a third tweet.

Boebert did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.

Boebert, Greene and Gaetz — who all sit to the far right of the Republican Party — have long been grouped together, but reports emerged in April of a rift between Greene and Boebert.

Politico reported that the pair got into a heated debate over Greene’s attendance, in February, of a white nationalist-organized event. According to the outlet, Boebert dislikes being associated with Greene.

The comment is a reference to conspiracy theories Greene spread prior to her election to Congress in which she falsely claimed California wildfires were caused by lasers somehow linked to influential Jewish people.

While Greene has been outspoken in her support for McCarthy, Boebert has laid out specific conditions he would need to meet to secure her support. “You cannot demand more responsibility without accountability. From the beginning. I have said my hard line is vacate the chair. We have to have an accountability mechanism on the speaker of the House,” she said. That hard line is a procedural tool that would allow members to effectively toss out the incumbent speaker (and many Republicans are weighing how hard to push on it).

Boebert isn’t giving up, but isn’t sure her concerns will be satisfied by the time of the Jan. 3 vote. “If there is accountability there, we can start having other conversations, but those conversations don’t exist without accountability,” she said. “So we’ll see on Jan. 3, if there’s any accountability there, but I don’t see it coming yet.”