Rep. Haaland: Of Course Matt Gaetz Used ‘Sacagawea’ as ‘Racial Slur’ and That’s the Last Thing He Should Do

‘That is not solving anything and we need to get back to solving the problems for real people in this country’

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CAMEROTA: "And, listen, I'm not trying to get -- to have you engage in some kind of name calling back and forth with Matt Gaetz, unless it is indicative of something that I have noticed happening with the freshmen class of representatives, particularly the women. It seems as though, correct me if I'm wrong, all of you are sort of more ready for a fight. It seems as though you're taking a different tact than people who came before you where you're -- you're not backing down from Twitter spats or on-air arguments." 
HAALAND: "Well, I'm not -- I'm not feeling like it's so much of a spat. It's -- it's misconceptions. It's -- it's -- it's really, you know, what Congress should be talking about are the real problems that real people in this country are facing and how we can go about making sure that we're doing the best we can to solve those problems. I think the last thing that Mr. Gaetz should be doing is using native women's names as racial slurs. That doesn't solving anything. And we need to get back to the -- to solving the problems for real people in this country, like opening up the government." 

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