‘If you want it outside, we can do it’

A furious rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) asked Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) whether she would “take it outside” Tuesday after the Democratic congresswoman called her a “child” during a House Oversight Committee meeting.

The meeting, aimed at approving rules for the House panel and introducing new members, descended into chaos when Crockett charged that Mace’s efforts to ban transgender women from using women’s facilities at the U.S. Capitol were intended to raise money for her campaign.

“I can see that somebody’s campaign coffers are really struggling right now,” Crockett said, referring to Mace. “So she keeps saying trans, trans, trans, so people will feel threatened.”

“And child, listen,” she added—a comment that infuriated Mace.

“I’m not a child! Don’t call me a child!” the South Carolina Republican shot back. “I’m not a kid. Don’t even start. I’m a grown woman. I’m 47 years old.”

As Crockett, 43, continued to speak — and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) repeatedly rapped his gavel — Mace suggested they continue their heated conversation out in the hallway.

“You won’t do that. I’m not a kid. If you want to take it outside, we can do it,” the South Carolina Republican yelled at Crockett.

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) motioned to knock Mace’s “take it outside” remark off the record, but Comer ruled that the congresswoman was not actually challenging her colleague to a fight.

“What the gentleman said … it 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 went 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 over it. Bless her heart,” Crockett wrote.

Meanwhile, Mace tweeted: “I will not be humiliated. 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 derailed 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 order against Attorney General Merrick Garland, leading Crockett to suggest the Georgia Republican had a “bleach blonde , poorly built, butch body.”