Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) threatened to bring a motion to vacate to the floor while in a “heated” exchange with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and called him “tubby,” NBC News reports.
However, Van Orden later said the insult was actually directed at another GOP lawmaker.
Said Van Orden: “That was directed directly at Matt Gaetz.
He felt like he should call me a squish and I wanted to remind anybody who has not been in combat and held his friend’s hand as they died bring shot by the enemy really doesn’t have any business calling someone else a squish. And so, in fact, I did call him tubby and I stand by that.”