Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Tensions Are Boiling: "A Fistfight Could Break Out at Any Moment"

Tensions between House Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have gotten so high that a congressman recently predicted the two could get into a fistfight at any moment.  "It's become increasingly clear that Boebert and Greene, once close allies, are now at each other's throats. And both are powerful enemies," the Daily Beast reported this week. Read on to learn more about the tensions boiling over.

Once able to work copacetically, Greene and Boebert now take shots at each other in public, the news outlet reports. Greene recently called Boebert "a little b*" to her face, and Boebert supported Greene's removal from the House Freedom Caucus. ""A fistfight could break out at any moment," Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told the Daily Beast, clarifying that he was serious. "I am friends with both of them. It's entertaining to think that a fistfight could break out at any movement. I kind of dig that."

One GOP lawmaker told the Daily Beast Another GOP that one of them could destroy the other—they just didn't know who would prevail. "They will be nailing that coffin shut," this lawmaker said, "and one of them is still in there kicking and screaming!" Rep. Paul Gosar called Greene and Boebert's conflict a "two-way sword." "I just think that whatever is there, could be utilized both ways," he said. "People make decisions that they have to work and live by, and you kind of hate being in their shoes."

Greene is reportedly upset about being removed from the Freedom Caucus. Boebert could have defended her but instead sided with House members who wanted to remove her. The vote was set up quickly. Members were told about an "unscheduled meeting" for which there was little notice. When Greene was removed, she refused to take a phone call about the news and asked the conversation to happen on the House floor "where she could make a scene," the news outlet reports.

About three weeks ago, Greene and Boebert had an argument on the House floor over competing articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden. "I've donated to you. I've defended you. But you've been nothing but a little bitch to me," Greene told Boebert, according to a source that spoke to the Daily Beast. "And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to cosponsor them."

"OK, Marjorie, we're through," Boebert then said, shrugging her shoulders. With Boebert's back turned, ​​Greene responded: "We were never together." "Marjorie is not my enemy," Boebert told the Daily Beast. " I came here to protect our children and their posterity. Joe Biden and the Democrats are destroying our country," she told The Daily Beast. "My priorities are to correct their bad policies and save America." She later told CNN: "Like I said, I'm not in middle school."