From left: Rep. Lauren Boebert and President Joe Biden.Photo: getty (2)
Headline-making Colorado Rep.Lauren Boebertlet her voice be heard during PresidentJoe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night when she interjectedlate into his remarksto criticize his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Instead, Boebert spoke out while Biden was talking about increasing support for veterans — which he said was close to his heart as his older son, former National GuardsmanBeau, died of brain cancer in 2015.
“Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan faced many dangers … When they came home, many of the world’s fittest and best trained warriors were never the same. Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness. A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin,” the president said. “I know. One of those soldiers was my son Maj. Beau Biden.”
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As he spoke about veterans, Boebert was heard calling out “13 of them” — an apparent referenceto the service-members killedin a suicide attack in the final days of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan last year.
From left: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi.Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty
NBC reported that Boebert and fellow Republican Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has frequently courted controversy herself with asimilarly provocative style, kept up “something of a running commentary” during Biden’s speech that was “clearly audible” to reporters.
Boebert and Greene also were heard trying to chant “build the wall” when immigration was raised,according to Reuters.
Elsewhere during Tuesday’s speech, some Republicans booed when Biden referenced tax cuts passed when they controlled Congress, which he said favored the wealthy.
source: people.com
