An enraged Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) asked Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) if she wanted to “take it outside” Tuesday after the Democratic congresswoman called her a “child” during a House Oversight Committee meeting.
The meeting, intended to approve the rules for the House panel and introduce new members, descended into chaos as Crockett charged that Mace’s efforts to ban transgender women from using female facilities at the US Capitol were aimed at raising money for her campaign.
“I can see that somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now,” Crockett said, referring to Mace. “So she’s gonna keep saying trans, trans, trans, so that people will feel threatened.”
“And child, listen,” she added — a comment which infuriated Mace.
“I am no child! Do not call me a child!” the South Carolina Republican fired back. “I am no child. Don’t even start. I am a grown woman. I am 47 years old.”
As Crockett, 43, continued to speak – and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) repeatedly banged his gavel – Mace suggested they could continue their heated conversation out in the hallway.
“You will not do that. I am not a child. If you want to take it outside, we can do that,” the South Carolina Republican shouted at Crockett.
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) motioned to strike Mace’s “take it outside” remark from the record, but Comer ruled that the congresswoman was not actually challenging her colleague to a fight.
“What the gentlelady said … that could mean we can go outside and have a cup of coffee, or maybe a beer – we have lots of conversations outside,” Comer argued.
After the meeting, Crockett took to X and said she felt Mace “threatened” her.
“Today, I introduced an amendment to reinstate the Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. My Republican colleague threatened to physically fight me about it. Bless her heart,” Crockett wrote.
Meanwhile, Mace tweeted: “I will not be belittled. I will not back down. And I will hold the line. I don’t care how offended Jasmine Crockett is by my words.”
Crockett was also a central figure in a House Oversight Committee hearing that went off the rails last year after she lashed out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
Greene, 50, accused Crockett of wearing “fake eyelashes” during a May 2024 hearing on whether to move forward with a contempt resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland, leading Crockett to suggest the Georgia Republican had a “bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body.”
