Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert interrupted and heckled President Joe Biden as he was coming to the end of his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Rep. Lauren Boebert's moment came as Biden began to discuss how his son, who died of cancer, was among the many veterans who may have suffered from the toxic exposure injuries from military burn pits, used extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“A cancer that put them in a flag-draped coffin” Biden started to say when Rep. Lauren Boebert yelled, “You put them in. Thirteen of them!"
Rep. Lauren Boebert's comment drew an outpouring of boos from Democrats, adding a note of division to an address that received several moments of robust bipartisan applause.
After the address, Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted, "When Biden said flag draped coffins I couldn't stay silent. I told him directly he did it. He put 13 in there."
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