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During a House committee meeting on Wednesday, Rep. Al Green, a Democrat from Texas, was filmed accusing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin of being a “racist.” The meeting was centered on discussing the funding for the department.
Following his initial accusation, Green escalated the situation by telling Mullin to “shut up.”
Secretary Mullin appeared visibly taken aback by Green’s comments, tilting his head in surprise as Green reiterated the command to “shut up.”
Mullin responded by asking, “Did you just tell me to shut up?”
As the committee chair attempted to restore order with the gavel, Green asserted his authority, declaring, “It’s my time.”
“I’m not going to let anybody call me a racist chairman,” Mullen calmly told Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-New York, who serves as the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Green denied making the comment before again asking Garbarino to “tell him to shut up.”
The chairman called for the encounter to be suspended following Green’s escalation at the House gathering.
Green has a history of aggressive outbursts, having been ejected from President Donald Trump’s primetime address to a joint session of Congress for a second year in a row in February.
He was recently defeated in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas’ 18th Congressional District by freshman Rep. Christian Menefee.