A Republican-led effort seeks to censure Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for referring to Greg Abbott as “Governor Hot Wheels.”
“I plan to introduce a bill to censure Jasmine Crockett for her disgraceful and vile attacks against our Governor of Texas,” he wrote, while reposting a news story on his efforts. “This kind of rhetoric has no place in Congress.”
Crockett was speaking at a Human Rights Campaign event on Saturday when she made the remarks about the Texas governor.
“Ya'll know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there! Come on, now. And the only thing hot about him is that he’s a hot [expletive] mess, honey,” Crockett said.
After news emerged about efforts to censure her, Crockett issued a lengthy statement on X, defending her remarks.
“I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable,” Crockett wrote.
She also said the reasoning behind describing Abbott as “a hot mess,” saying that she was referring to the policies and his leadership of the Lone Star State.
“Literally, the next line I said was that he was a ‘Hot [expletive] Mess,’ referencing his terrible policies. At no point did I mention or allude to his condition.”
Censure is defined in Congress as a formal statement of disapproval that requires a vote.
The House and the Senate each have rules that allow the chambers to draft and approve a censure resolution. A censure does not actually remove a member of Congress from office but is rather considered a symbolic move, one that provides a public record stating that an individual’s actions are strongly disapproved.
If the resolution passes, Crockett would be the second House Democrat censured this year.
Earlier this month, her fellow Texas congressman, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), was censured after repeatedly disrupting President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress. House Speaker Mike Johnson directed Green to be removed from the chamber after he stood and shouted during Trump’s remarks.
NTD reached out to both the offices of Crockett, Weber, and Abbott and did not receive responses by publication time.
