Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Others Blast Marjorie Taylor Greene for Holocaust Comments On 5/25/21 at 12:06 PM EDT Leaders of Congress in both parties are condemning controversial Republican Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who recently compared COVID-19 mask mandates to requirements put on Jewish people during the Holocaust. Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called her statements "appalling," while Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer described them as "sickening" Monday morning. Greene—who has been a lightening rod for her controversial statements over the U.S. presidential election, refusal to wear a mask on the House floor, and attacks on Democratic lawmakers that ultimately led to her removal from all committee assignments—has repeatedly compared the masks that have curbed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to the gold stars that Jews were required to wear during the Holocaust.