<p><img src="https://static5.businessinsider.com/image/601442436dfbe10018e00c29-2000/Marjorie%20Taylor%20Greene.jpg" border="0" alt="Marjorie Taylor Greene" data-mce-source="Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File" data-mce-caption="In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., sits in the House Chamber after they reconvened for arguments over the objection of certifying Arizona's Electoral College votes in November's election, at the Capitol in Washington"></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>Rep. Cori Bush announced on Friday that she's changing offices after a maskless Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene "berated" her and her staff in a hallway.</p><p>Bush, a freshman Democrat from Missouri, said in a tweet that she decided to move offices for the safety of her staff and herself. Both <a href="https://greene.house.gov/">Greene's</a> and <a href="https://bush.house.gov/">Bush's</a> offices are located on the ground floor of the Longworth House Office Building, according to the congresswomen's' websites.</p><p>Greene, a newly-elected Republican from Georgia, has rankled colleagues on both sides of the aisle by peddling dangerous conspiracies associated with the QAnon movement and refusing to wear a mask on the Hill.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong></em><em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-covid19-vaccines-capitol-police-custodians-frontline-workers-waiting-2021-1" data-analytics-position="45" data-analytics-module="">Vaccine inequity on Capitol Hill: Members of Congress got the shots but essential Hill workers are left waiting</a></em></p><p>Bush added that Congress should pass a resolution she introduced in the wake of the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol to investigate and potentially expel members like Greene who promoted former President Donald Trump's conspiracies that the 2020 election was stolen from him.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation=""><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media.<br><br>I'm moving my office away from hers for my team's safety.<br><br>I've called for the expulsion of members who incited the insurrection from Day 1. Bring H.Res 25 to a vote.</p> Cori Bush (@CoriBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1355198214626963457'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2021</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p></p><p>In a January 18 tweet, Greene accused Bush, a racial justice activist, of leading the group of protesters who marched for police reform in an upscale part of St. Louis during the nationwide demonstrations in the summer of 2020. The group was met by two wealthy lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who came out of their house brandishing their guns at the protesters.</p><p>Quoting Texas Republican chairman Allen West, Greene tweeted that Bush "is a BLM activist who led the mob that called for the rape, murder, and burning of the home of Patty and Mark McCloskey of St. Louis."</p><p>Also on Friday, Punchbowl News reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "directly intervened" in the matter to get Bush moved to a new office.</p><p>Representatives for Greene and Bush did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation=""><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoriBush</a> did you denounce radical BLM violence and apologize to the McCloskeys'<br><br>Cori Bush is a BLM activist who led the mob that called for the rape, murder, and burning of the home of Patty and Mark McCloskey of St. Louis.<a href="https://twitter.com/AllenWest'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AllenWest</a> <a href="https://t.co/mpuaFYWmUA">https://t.co/mpuaFYWmUA</a></p> Marjorie Taylor Greene(@mtgreenee) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1351304720170831874'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2021</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p></p><p>Greene won an August primary runoff in the open race for the deeply-Republican 14th Congressional District in Northwest Georgia and easily sailed to win the general election, despite the concerns of top Republicans over her voluminous history of espousing racism, Islamaphobia, and conspiracy theories affiliated with the wide-ranging QAnon movement.</p><p>Reports from outlets including Media Matters, Politico, and CNN into Greene's social media use before she was elected to Congress reveal that Greene posted in support or liked comments on Facebook pushing conspiracies about the 2012 school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the February 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman-Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.</p><p>Even more alarming, CNN recently reported the Greene had replied to and liked posts stating that top Democrats including Pelosi should be executed.</p><p>While House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that he would have a "conversation" with Greene about her distributing social media posts, she has not yet faced any kind of official punishment from her caucus, like being denied committee assignments.</p><p>Pelosi and other Democrats have slammed top Republicans for appointing Greene to the House Committee on Education and Labor given her embrace of conspiracy theories around school shootings and her actively harassing student gun reform advocates.</p><p><strong>Read more:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-discussed-then-ignored-fears-about-marjorie-taylor-greene-axios-2021-1" data-analytics-position="1" data-analytics-module="">Republicans discussed, then ignored, Marjorie Taylor Greene's threat to the GOP last summer, new report says</a></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marjorie-greene-pushed-conspiracy-that-space-laser-ignited-california-wildfire-2021-1" data-analytics-position="2" data-analytics-module="">Marjorie Greene pushed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in 2018 that a space laser ignited California's worst wildfire of all time</a></p><section><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-slams-gop-over-majorie-taylor-greenes-2021-1">Pelosi slams Republicans for appointing Rep. 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