GOP Rep. Lawler calls Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Jewish space laser lady’ in SALT feud

Rep. Mike Lawler traded insults with chap Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene successful a nasty online spat implicit his propulsion for a higher headdress connected deducting authorities and section taxes, oregon SALT.

Calling MTG “the Jewish abstraction laser lady,” Lawler said hardline right-wing Republicans should wage much attraction to winning plaything seats similar his Westchester County-based territory if they privation to support power of the House of Representatives.

“Shockingly the ‘Jewish Space Laser’ woman erstwhile again doesn’t person a hint what she is talking about,” Lawler posted connected X, referring to Taylor Greene. “By the way, the crushed you bask a gavel is due to the fact that Republicans similar maine person won our seats. Good luck being successful the Majority if we don’t.”

Taylor Greene — a Georgia MAGA stalwart who erstwhile spouted the antisemitic conspiracy mentation that the Rothschild banking household created “space lasers” that caused the California wildfires — countered that Lawler should recognition President Donald Trump with winning Congress.

“Lawler usually isn’t the feline successful the league with the champion ideas,” she wrote.

Lawler pointed retired that helium is 1 of 3 retired of 220 sitting Republican lawmakers who won districts Trump mislaid successful the 2024 election. Without those 3 GOP lawmakers, the enactment would not clasp the 218 seats needed for a majority, helium said.

“I cognize mathematics is hard but: 220 – 3 = 217,” Lawler wrote.

The tit-for-tat Twitter spat comes arsenic warring Republican factions were acceptable for a important gathering Thursday to question statement connected SALT and different knotty disputes that person endangered Trump’s sprawling fund bill.

Far right-wing lawmakers similar Taylor Greene privation adjacent deeper cuts to societal information nett programs similar Medicaid, portion comparative moderates privation to bounds the symptom connected their constituents. Some fiscal hawks are insisting upon smaller taxation cuts to debar blowing up the deficit.

The existent draught of the measure includes an summation successful the headdress connected SALT deductions to $30,000 from the existent $10,000.

Lawler and a fistful of different self-described “SALT Republicans” from affluent suburban districts successful high-tax bluish states person vowed to ballot against the measure if it doesn’t hike the SALT headdress by a overmuch larger amount, though they haven’t identified an acceptable number.