Marjorie Taylor Greene, the extremist Republican congresswoman, has apologized for her comments comparing the required wearing of safety masks in the US House to the horrors of the Holocaust. “I’m truly sorry for offending people with remarks about the Holocaust,” Taylor Greene told reporters outside the Capitol on Monday, saying she had visited Washington’s US Holocaust Memorial Museum earlier in the day. GOP leaders, however, have been reluctant to take concrete action against Greene, a close ally of Donald Trump. But as House members returned to the Capitol on Monday after a three-week break, Greene was contrite. House leaders have recently said vaccinated people are no longer required to wear masks in the chamber.

Source: The Guardian June 15, 2021 02:01 UTC