A member of theRepublican Party, Boebert is known for her gun rights advocacy. In2020, she defeated 5-term incumbentScott Tipton in anupset victory in the primaries of Colorado's 3rd congressional district and went on to win the general election overDemocratic nomineeDiane Mitsch Bush. In Congress, Boebert has associated herself with the conservativeRepublican Study Committee, the right-wingFreedom Caucus, of which she became the communications chair in January 2022, and the pro-gunSecond Amendment Caucus. She won reelection in2022 by a narrow margin of 546 votes against formerAspen City Council memberAdam Frisch. Boebert was reelected to a third term in2024 after switching to run in Colorado's 4th congressional district.
Boebert was born inAltamonte Springs, Florida, on December 19, 1986,[5] to Shawna Roberts Bentz,[6] who was 18 at the time of Boebert's birth.[7] The identity of her father is not known. Professional wrestlerStan Lane was speculated to be Boebert's father but this was disproved by two DNA tests.[6][7] At the age of four, Bentz took her from Florida to Colorado to stay with her boyfriend, only to move back to Florida with a different boyfriend, and then returned to Colorado with the Colorado man, who became her stepfather.[7] When she was 12, she and her family moved to theMontbello neighborhood ofDenver and later toAurora, Colorado, before settling inRifle, Colorado, in 2003.[8][9] Boebert dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby.[10][11] She earned aGED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary.[10][11]
Boebert has stated that her family depended onwelfare when she was growing up[12][10][13] and that she was raised in aDemocratic household in aliberal area.[13][14] Records at theColorado secretary of state's office show that her mother was registered to vote in Colorado as a Republican from 2001 to 2013 and as a Democrat from 2015 to 2020.[13] At age 19, Boebert herself registered to vote in 2006 as a Democrat; in 2008, she changed her affiliation to Republican.[13]
According to Boebert, she became religious while attending a church inGlenwood Springs,[15] and that she became aborn-again Christian in 2009.[16] She has claimed she volunteered at a local jail for seven years, but attendance logs at the Garfield County Sheriff's office show that she volunteered at the jail nine times between May 2014 and November 2016.[17]
Early career
After leaving high school, Boebert took a job as an assistant manager at aMcDonald's in Rifle.[18][19] She later said that this job changed her views about whether government assistance is necessary.[8][20] After marrying Jayson Boebert in 2007, she got a job filing for anatural gas drilling company and then became apipeliner, a member of a team that builds and maintains pipelines and pumping stations.[15]
Restaurant ownership
Boebert at Shooters Grill
In 2013, Boebert and her husband opened Shooters Grill in Rifle, west ofGlenwood Springs, Colorado. Boebert says she obtained aconcealed carry permit after a man was "beaten to death by another man's hands ... outside of [her] restaurant", and began encouraging the restaurant's servers tocarry guns openly.[21][16][22] That is mostly false: in 2013, a man who had reportedly engaged in a fight blocks away ran to within about a block of Boebert's restaurant, fell, and died from amethamphetamine overdose.[22][23][24] The Boeberts also owned a restaurant called Smokehouse 1776, now defunct, across the street from Shooters Grill.[25] In 2015, Boebert opened Putters restaurant on Rifle Creek Golf Course,[26] which she sold in December 2016.[27] Shooters Grill, according to her congressional disclosure forms, lost $143,000 in 2019 and $226,000 in 2020.[28]
In 2017, 80 people who attended aGarfield County fair contracted food poisoning after eating porksliders from a temporary location set up by Shooters Grill and Smokehouse 1776. The restaurants did not have the required permits to operate at the temporary location, and the Garfield County health department determined that the outbreak was caused by unsafe food handling at the event.[29]
In 2020, Boebert protested orders issued by Colorado governorJared Polis to close businesses in response to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[30] In mid-May 2020, she violated the state'sstay-at-home order by reopening Shooters Grill for dine-in service,[31] for which she received acease and desist order from Garfield County, with which she refused to comply.[32] The next day, Boebert moved tables outside, onto the sidewalk, and in parking spaces.[33] The following day, Garfield County suspended her food license.[34] By late May, with the state allowing restaurants to reopen at 50% capacity, the county dropped its temporary restraining order.[35]
Shooters Grill closed in July 2022, when the building's new owner opted not to renew the lease.[36]
In September 2019, Boebert made national headlines when she confrontedBeto O'Rourke,a candidate in the2020 Democratic presidential primary, at an Aurora town hall meeting over his proposal for a buy-back program and a ban on assault-style rifles likeAR-15s.[37][38][19][39] Later that month, she opposed a measure banning guns in city-owned buildings at a meeting of theAspen City Council.[40][39] The ordinance passed unanimously a month later.[41]
Boebert was an organizer of the December 2019 "We Will Not Comply!" rally opposing Colorado'sred flag law, which allows guns to be taken from people deemed a threat. The American Patriots Three Percent militia, affiliated with theThree Percenters, provided security, and members of theProud Boys attended the rally.[42][43] OnTwitter, Boebert has used rhetoric friendly to the Three Percenters and posed with members of the group. She deleted the tweet with the photos after being asked about it. During her congressional campaign, she said she was "with the militia".[44][45]
Boebert criticized Tipton's voting record, which she said did not reflect his district. Before the primary, Trump endorsed Tipton,[46] but Boebert characterized him as unsupportive of Trump.[47] She accused him of supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants by voting for H.R. 5038, theFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, saying that the act had a provision that led to citizenship and provided funding for housing for undocumented farm workers.[50] Boebert decried what she said were Tipton's insufficient efforts to continue funding for thePaycheck Protection Program, whose money had run out within two weeks, arguing that more was needed.[51] Boebert raised just over $150,000 through the June 30 primary.[52]
In a May 2020 interview onSteelTruth, aQAnon-supporting web show, Boebert said she was "very familiar with" the conspiracy theory: "Everything I've heard of Q, I hope that this is real because it only means America is getting stronger and better."[53] TheColorado Times Recorder reported that she followed multipleYouTube channels connected with QAnon before deleting her YouTube account when it came under scrutiny.[54] Boebert later said she was not a follower of QAnon, in a statement where she endorsed investigations into "deep state activities that undermine the President".[55][56]
In September 2019, Boebert aide and future campaign manager Sherronna Bishop published a video on herFacebook page in which she interviewed a self-proclaimed member of thefar-right groupProud Boys, which Bishop called "pro-everything that makes America great", adding, "thank God for you guys and the Proud Boys". Bishop left the Boebert campaign shortly after Boebert won the Republican nomination. In October 2020, Boebert's campaign denied any connection to the Proud Boys and said Boebert did not share Bishop's views.[57][58]
On June 30 2020, Boebert won the Republican nomination with 54.6% of the vote to Tipton's 45.4%.[59] The result gained national attention and surprised political commentators.CNN andPolitico called it a "stunning upset";[39][60]The Hill made a similar statement.[61] Tipton conceded defeat on election night and Trump congratulated Boebert in a tweet.[1]Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairCheri Bustos said in a statement that national Republicans should disavow Boebert for supporting QAnon.[60]
Boebert was the first primary challenger to defeat a sitting U.S. representative in Colorado in 48 years, since Democratic RepresentativeWayne Aspinall lost to Alan Merson.[62][63] She pledged to join theFreedom Caucus upon taking office.[46]
General election
Boebert facedDemocratic former state representativeDiane Mitsch Bush, a retired sociology professor fromSteamboat Springs, Colorado, in the November general election. Boebert said that Mitsch Bush's platform was "more government control" and that Mitsch Bush had a "socialist agenda".[62] Boebert emphasized her devotion to Trump and his policies and reiterated her points about deregulation of industries and decreasing healthcare funding,[64] while rallying for the expansion of gun rights.[65][66]
In late July 2020, Boebert was considered the front-runner.[8] A September survey paid for byMichael Bloomberg's Democratic-leaning House Majority PAC had Mitsch Bush ahead by one percentage point.[67] Mitsch Bush outraised Boebert, with $4.2 million for her and nearly $4 million spent by Democratic operatives, as opposed to Boebert's $2.4 million raised and more than $5 million spent by the Republicans, but Boebert won the election, 51.27% to 45.41%.[68] According to theAtlas of the 2020 Elections, Boebert was able to command strong support in the traditionally conservative areas of theWestern Slope of Colorado and theSan Luis Valley while retaining enough Republican votes in liberal-leaningPueblo and other Democratic areas. It also stated that Boebert did not suffer from the Trump effect, as compared to the support of Trump at the polls, with the 3rd district witnessing fewsplit-ticket votes. Her campaign succeeded by appealing to independence and rebellion.[64]
In 2020, Boebert reimbursed herself $22,259 for mileage costs from her campaign's finances, which legally would require her to have driven 38,712 mi (62,301 km).The Denver Post reported in early February 2021 that three ethics experts said the high figure was suspicious. Boebert's campaign attributed the figure to her "aggressive travel schedule", but members of her campaign did not provide evidence for the amount of travel.[70]CPR News calculated that it was plausible that Boebert had driven 30,000 miles based on her visits to 129 events.[71]
Boebert said in a mid-February interview that she "drove tens of thousands of miles ... I had to make those connections, and really, I underreported a lot of stuff."[72] In late February 2021, Boebert's campaign updated its campaign finance filing, reclassifying $3,053 claimed for mileage to "hotels", and $867 claimed for mileage to Uber rides, thus claiming a mileage of around 30,000 miles.[72]
Despite campaign finance laws and ethics laws requiring Congressional candidates to reveal their immediate family's income sources to show potential conflicts of interest, Boebert did not report her husband's income in her 2020 filing, instead belatedly revealing it in August 2021,[28] the same day theFederal Election Commission (FEC) sent her a letter investigating her campaign expenses.[73] The filing, while misnaming the company involved, stated that her husband, Jayson, was paid $460,000 in 2019 and $478,000 in 2020 as a consultant for Terra Energy, one of Colorado's largest natural gas producers and fourth nationwide in methane emissions.[28][74] The company toldThe Daily Beast that Jayson was a contracted shift worker for the company who was not paid directly but through another company, Boebert Consulting.[75] As of 2021, Colorado classified Boebert Consulting as a delinquent company due to the lack of filings or registered agent with the state.[73] Boebert oversees the energy industry via her position on the House Committee on Natural Resources.[75]
In August 2021, the FEC investigated the apparent use of more than $6,000 from Boebert's 2022 reelection campaign funds for her personal expenses.[76] The funds were used between May and June 2021 via fourVenmo payments.[76] Boebert's communications director said that these were indeed personal expenses, "billed to the campaign account in error", and that the "reimbursement has already happened".[76] In September 2021, Boebert submitted documents to the FEC declaring that the campaign money had been used to settle rental and utility bills, and had since been reimbursed.[77][78]
Republican primary
Boebert sought a second term representing Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the2022 election.[79] During the primary, her main challenger wasDon Coram, astate senator who positioned himself as more moderate. Boebert aimed to portray him as corrupt, in particular by alleging that he used his powers as a state legislator to pass laws legalizinghemp, which Coram grows (state voters approved theamendment legalizing marijuana in 2012), and as not Republican enough.[80][81] A Democratic-alignedSuper PAC made false claims and unproven allegations about Boebert.[82][83] Boebert's attorney said in June that she would file a defamation lawsuit against the group, but she has not done so. The temporary restraining order she obtained on June 23 against David Wheeler, one of its co-founders,[84] was vacated in July and the case dismissed.[83]
Boebert's campaign had a significant advantage, with $5 million in campaign funds to Coram's $225,000; Coram also started campaigning late in the primary,[85][86] and Trump endorsed Boebert.[87] During the pre-primary debate on May 26, Boebert emphasized the bills she had introduced in Congress while questioning Coram's legislative votes. She also repeated claims of massive election fraud and invoked her opposition to the restrictions introduced as a result of the spread of what she called the "Fauci-funded China virus" (SARS-CoV-2).[80]
Boebert supporters failed to throw Coram off the ballot for allegedly not having collected enough signatures.[88][89] Several thousand Democrats tried to influence the election by renouncing their membership in the party and voting as independents for more moderate Republicans, which isallowed in the state.[90][85] Boebert won the primary with almost 66% of the vote.[91]
General election
In a debate with Democratic nomineeAdam Frisch on September 11, 2022, Boebert took credit for bills she had voted against, did not cross-examine Frisch, proposed more oil and gas development to respond to climate change, and continuously attacked House speakerNancy Pelosi.[92][93] Boebert defeated Frisch by a small margin in a closer than expected race. The margin was so close it triggered an automatic recount.[94][95][96] The recount was completed on December 12 and affirmed that Boebert won by 546 votes out of 327,000.[97][98][99]
Boebert filed her statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on January 13, 2023.[100] After narrowly winning reelection in 2022, she attempted to rebrand her image with the voters in her district from aMAGA firebrand to a hard-working congresswoman.[98][101] In 2023, she blamed her narrow 2022 victory on"'ballot harvesting' — a GOP term for third-party collection of absentee ballots — rather than what Democrats have called her 'MAGA extremism' and political charades" while her press releases focused on local issues, including a "$5 million grant for a rural health center in a spending package she voted against".[102]
Boebert announced on December 27, 2023, that she would switch to running inColorado's 4th congressional district in the eastern part of the state,[103] which is considered to be Colorado's safest district for Republicans.[104] Within a week, Boebert stated that the reason for the change in district was "Hollywood elites" such asBarbra Streisand and "Ryan Reynolds coming in and donating to the Democrat" in the 3rd congressional district.[105] Boebert has been criticized as a "carpetbagger" for switching to a more Republican leaning district.[106] Boebert won the race with nearly 53% of the vote.[104]
Tenure
Observers describe Boebert asfar-right;[2] she rejects the label.[107]
As of January 29, 2022, Boebert had introduced 17 bills and seven resolutions, none of which passed the committee.[108]
In January 2023, at the beginning of the 118th Congress, she was one of 20 far-right Republican members who prevented the election ofKevin McCarthy to the House speakership on the first 14 ballots.[110]
In February 2023, Boebert co-sponsored a bill to designate the "AR-15-style rifle" the National Gun of the United States.[111][112]
During the2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis, Boebert was a vocal opponent of theFiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 and vowed to vote "nay" on the bill, which passed in the House 314–117.[113] She missed the vote and said on the record that she had been "unavoidably detained". Two days later, Boebert tweeted that she had missed the vote as a "no-show protest" but CNN had recorded video of her running up the steps to the House and being told that the vote had been closed.[114]
Boebert has blocked critics on her personal Twitter account.[115] A blocked constituent sued her for access,[116] but the case was dismissed with prejudice in October 2022.[117][118]
Boebert made another attempt in June 2023, when she filed a privileged resolution to bypass House leadership and bring impeachment articles against Biden for his immigration and border protection policies to the floor for a vote. The House voted instead to refer the matter to the Homeland Security and Judiciary committees.[122]
Certification of 2020 presidential election and Capitol attack
On January 5, 2021, the day beforethe storming of the United States Capitol, Boebert urged people to "remember these next 48 hours", saying they would be among the most important in American history.[127] The next day, in the hours before the Capitol was attacked, she described the day's events as Republicans' "1776 moment", a reference to theAmerican Revolutionary War.[128] Boebert then told SpeakerNancy Pelosi that her constituents were outside the Capitol and that she had promised to represent their voices in the chamber.[129] During a town hall in March, Boebert appeared to defend the January 6 attackers on the Capitol, saying, "We already see in Washington, D.C. You can't petition your government. You're an insurrectionist if you do that!", later claiming that the remarks were made "in reference to the ongoing security measures in place around the Capitol complex".[130]
During thecounting of theElectoral College votes before the attack, Boebert objected to acceptingArizona's votes in a speech to thejoint session of Congress. She accused Arizona of "unlawfully amending its voter registration laws by extending the registration periods", alleging widespreadvoter fraud, whichechoed the false claims aired by Donald Trump, and accusing everyone who intended to accept the "results of this concentrated, coordinated, partisan effort by Democrats" of having allied themselves with the extremist left.[131]
In December 2021, Boebert doubled down on these allegations, saying that hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally mailed to voters, without providing evidence.[79] When the vote count resumed after the rioters had been removed from the Capitol, the challenges to Arizona's andPennsylvania's electoral votes proceeded to a vote while those against several other states were dropped. Boebert voted against the certification of both states' electoral votes.[131][132][133]
Democratic politicians in Colorado and the AuroraSentinel Colorado accused Boebert of helping to inciteviolence at the U.S. Capitol and called on her to resign.[134][135] While the Capitol was being stormed, Boebert posted information on Twitter about the proceedings of the certification, including that the House chamber had been locked down and that Pelosi had been evacuated.[136][137] She was accused of endangering members' safety and faced calls to resign, but refused, defending her actions because Pelosi's evacuation was also publicly broadcast live on TV;[129][138][139] academic Zac Parker opined that it was still a potential security threat sinceC-SPAN did not focus on Pelosi, and had it not been for Boebert's tweet, the protesters might have not noticed it.[137] Boebert's communications director resigned on January 16 in response to her behavior on January 6.[140]
Boebert opposes mitigation policies seeking to reduce COVID-19's spread. She has called thevaccine mandates unconstitutional[79] and in particular, opposed them for the military.[150] She compared the federal government'sCOVID-19 vaccination efforts to "Biden [deploying] his NeedleNazis",[151][152] and accusedAnthony Fauci, who told people to overcome their political opposition and get the COVID-19 vaccine, of bullying.[153] Boebert also alleged that there was a deliberate effort to introduce immigrants who would substitute the unvaccinated people.[154] In June 2021, Boebert advised her constituents inMesa County, who were experiencing an uptick ofDelta variant cases at the time, that the "easiest way to make the Delta variant go away is to turn offCNN [and] vote Republican", but has since deleted the tweet amid public criticism.[155][156] She has also compared the virus tocommunism.[157]
Boebert is a vocal opponent of mandatoryface-mask wearing[158][159] and argues that masks should be optional.[160] She falsely claimed that, during the two months that followed the end of theTexas mask mandate, the state did not record any COVID-19-related deaths.[161] She introduced a bill that would ban all mask mandates on federal property and during travel ininterstate commerce, attracting no support.[108] Boebert was one of the people who voiced support for theFreedom Convoy 2022, a Canadian trucker protest seeking to repeal allCOVID-19 vaccination mandates andCOVID-19 restrictions.[162] Boebert received a $500 fine for violating the mask mandate on Congress's premises.[163]
During her 2020 campaign, Boebert pledged that she would not support any federal budget that resulted in additional debt[38] and that she would support abalanced budget amendment to theU.S. Constitution.[166] She opposes any tax increases.[167] While expressing support for more defense expenditure, Boebert was one of 75 House Republicans to vote against theNational Defense Authorization Act of 2022,[168] saying the bill had a "woke agenda".[150]
In May 2022, Boebert was one of nine House members who voted against two bills to alleviate the2022 shortage of baby formula caused by bacterial contamination. One of the bills, the Access to Baby Formula Act, makes it easier for low-income families to continue buying formula with vouchers; the other allows the government to invoke theDefense Production Act to speed up production. Boebert said she voted against the bills because "the Biden administration and Democrats created the issue."[169][170]
Education
Boebert supports eliminating theU.S. Department of Education.[38] She has said that one of her top legislative priorities is to eliminatecritical race theory from schools, even though it is not part of the K-12 Colorado Academic Standards.[171][172] During a press conference, she asserted that it was a lie, that it was racist,[173] and that it would lead to children hating each other.[174] Boebert opposes sex education in schools.[175] Boebert supported Louisiana's order to display theTen Commandments in public schools, as she commented in June 2024: "This is something we need all throughout our nation … because we need morals back in our nation."[176]
Environment
Boebert has supported the energy industry.[28][73] During her campaign, she said she supported "all-of-the-above energy, but the markets decide ... not the government".[177] She declared support foruranium extraction and the generation ofnuclear power, touting it as the "cleanest form of energy".[178] In February 2021, Boebert proposed a bill to ban executivemoratoriums on oil and gas leases and permits on some federal lands.[73] She also proposed amendments to theBuild Back Better Act that would abolish methane-emission payments byfracking companies and others that would increase royalties for oil and gas extraction on federal lands and abolish fines and financial requirements for cleaning abandoned drilling infrastructure.[179]
Boebert opposessustainable energy initiatives because she considers green energy unreliable and believes that decreasing the extraction offossil fuels in her district will "regulate our communities into poverty".[180] She opposes theGreen New Deal,[which?] claiming it would cost $93 trillion to implement and would bankrupt the country.[181][b] Boebert also opposes the participation of the United States in theParis Agreement, calling it "job-killing", and introduced a bill the day after Biden's inauguration seeking toblock re-entrance of the country to the agreement by forcing itsratification in the Senate by a two-thirds supermajority and prohibiting the use of federal funds for reaching the agreement's goals.[183]
Boebert believes that attempts atdecarbonization should be made viaforest management.[180] She has introduced a forest management bill, the Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act, which would attempt to preventwildfires through several mitigation measures, such as removing trees killed bybark beetles, making it harder for groups to go to court to stopforest thinning, and requiring the United States Forest Service to harvest six billionboard foot (14 millioncubic meters) of lumber annually.[184][185] Boebert has proposed legislation in the House anchoring theBureau of Land Management's headquarters inGrand Junction, Colorado, which is in the 3rd district.[186]
Fentanyl
In June 2022, Boebert introduced a bill to classify the opioidfentanyl as aweapon of mass destruction.[187] ACongressional Research Service report released in March stated that "formally designating fentanyl as [a weapon of mass destruction] may not be necessary for additional executive branch action" but that Congress could consider legislation to "address 'perceived shortcomings'."[188]
Firearms
Boebert is a strong advocate of gun rights. During her primary campaign, she voiced opposition to Colorado's recently enactedred flag law.[20][21] On January 1, 2021, in a letter co-signed by more than 80 Republicans, Boebert asked Speaker Pelosi andHouse minority leaderKevin McCarthy to uphold the 1967 law exempting members of Congress from aCapitol Hill ban on firearms, which allowed them to keep arms in their offices.[189]
After saying that she planned to carry a gun while working onCapitol Hill,[15][190] Boebert published aviral video advertisement showing her placing a handgun in a hip holster and walking through the neighborhood, near federal buildings and through alleys. Her spokesman later said that she had not been carrying a gun during the walk.[189] The video was made by the same consulting firm that produced the viral August 2020 campaign video for House candidateKimberly Klacik.[191]
On January 5, Boebert refused a bag check after she set off the newly installed Capitol Hill metal detectors, and entered the Capitol. She did the same on January 6, refusing to stop for a wand check after she set off the metal detector. Boebert called the metal detectors "just another political stunt by Speaker Pelosi".[192][193]
A January 2021New York Times profile of Boebert characterized her actions as "a made-for-Twitter moment that delighted the far right." The article said that although she had only been in Congress for a few days, she had "already arranged several episodes that showcased her brand of far-right defiance as a conspiracy theorist" and that she "represents an incoming faction of the party for whom breaking the rules—and gaining notoriety for doing it—is exactly the point."[138] Democrats, fearing the guns might do harm while in Congress chambers and partly in response to Boebert's conspicuous carry of a firearm, proposed legislation, which is being considered in Congress as of February 2022, to ban guns from Capitol grounds altogether.[194]
In February 2023, after theBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives mandated that gun owners register any firearms that use "stabilizing braces", Boebert said the mandate violated the separation of powers. She added: "Alcohol, tobacco and firearms. In western Colorado, we call that a fun weekend. But D.C. bureaucrats have used this agency to infringe on the rights of the American people."[195]
Foreign policy
Boebert was one of 14 House Republicans, most of them members of the Freedom Caucus, to vote against a measure condemning theMyanmar coup d'état that passed overwhelmingly.[196] She cited concern about a passage that urged social media platforms to prevent disinformation and violence, which she said was tantamount to makingBig Tech the "arbiter of truth".[197]
Boebert supports the construction of aMexico–U.S. border wall and opposes amnesty for undocumented immigrants living in the US;[38] she introduced two bills to that effect: one that would codifyTrump's immigration policies into law and one that would annul executive orders and internal policies that enable or assist asylum and immigration procedures.[143] Boebert said she intended to introduce a bill that would end financing of legal aid for immigrants.[171] She criticized what she called Biden's failure to contain "a complete invasion at our southern border"[171] and Democrats' preference foropen borders that she said hadenabled the Democratic electoral takeover ofCalifornia.[149]
Boebert has urged foreven closer relations betweenIsrael and the United States, saying that their foundings weredivinely inspired and that they are the "two nations [in the world] that have been created to glorify God".[4]
In 2023, Boebert was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed PresidentJoe Biden to remove U.S. troops fromSyria within 180 days.[205][206]
In 2025, Boebert penned a measure banning companies engaged in "politically motivated"boycotts of Israel from Pentagon contracts.[207]
Health care
During her primary campaign, Boebert argued for the repeal of theAffordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare,[208] and opposed the introduction of asingle-payer healthcare system, saying it would harm small businesses like hers because of the prohibitive cost.[209] After the election, she said she was undecided about whether it was best to keep or repeal Obamacare, but wished that a more market-based system would be adopted.[178] During her tenure in Congress, she was one of two representatives (the other wasMarjorie Taylor Greene) to vote against the TRANSPLANT Act, which reauthorized theNational Marrow Donor Program through 2026, citing concern over the addition of the program to the national debt as it had not received aCongressional Budget Office evaluation.[210]
Immigration
Boebert sponsored H.R. 6202, the American Tech Workforce Act of 2021, introduced by RepresentativeJim Banks. The legislation would establish a wage floor for the high-skill H-1B visa program, thereby significantly reducing employer dependence on the program. The bill would also eliminate the Optional Practical Training program that allows foreign graduates to stay and work in the United States.[211][better source needed]
LGBT rights
Boebert opposes theEquality Act, saying it promotes "supremacy of gays" and saystransgender women take scholarships and sports opportunities away fromcis women.[212][213] She opposessame-sex marriage, writing on her campaign website that she opposes "efforts to redefine marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman".[214] She introduced a bill to ban federal funding of research and publications intotransgender health care for minors, asserting that they are being "sexualized and used for horrific sexual 'research'" when being administeredpuberty blockers.[215]
In 2025, Boebert harassed acisgender woman in the women's bathroom at the Capitol by trying to get her removed, making erroneous accusations and assumptions that the woman was transgender Congress memberSarah McBride.[218]
QAnon and other conspiracies
Boebert has embraced theQAnon conspiracy theory.[219] During a March 15, 2021, town hall inMontrose, Colorado, advertised only to local Republicans who were asked to not disclose it publicly, she was asked whenHillary Clinton and other former officials would be arrested, a recurring theme of QAnon. She responded that she knew someone involved with documents declassified by Trump during the closing days of his presidency and that the documents would reveal corruption that would trigger resignations that would allow Republicans to retake the House and Senate before 2022, echoing a theory promoted byThe Epoch Times. Boebert urged people to dismiss comments about the outlet's unreliability and said the information came from "very good sources".[220][221][222]
Boebert has also voiced support for theClinton body count conspiracy theory. After the June 2021 death of Christopher Sign, the reporter who broke the news of a 2016 meeting on the Phoenix Sky Harbor tarmac between former presidentBill Clinton and then-attorney generalLoretta Lynch, Boebert tweeted: "Why is it that so many who cross the Clinton Crime Syndicate end up dead?"[223][224]
Religion
In September 2021, Boebert told attendees at a Republican fundraiser that she and an aide were joined by Democratic representativeIlhan Omar on a Capitol elevator and that Boebert then said to her aide, "it's theJihad Squad ... She doesn't have a backpack, she wasn't dropping it and running so we're good".[225] Also that month, Boebert called Omar "a full-time propagandist forHamas" and an "honorary member of Hamas".[225] During a November 18, 2021, speech on the House floor, Boebert called Omar "the Jihad Squad member from Minnesota".[226] At a November 20 event, she repeated the elevator story, this time including a Capitol Police officer with "fret all over his face".[227][225]
Omar responded that the story was invented and that "Anti-Muslim bigotry isn't funny and shouldn't be normalized". Boebert later apologized "to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Representative Omar".[225][228] After Boebert and Omar spoke by phone, both said the call went badly, with Boebert saying that she would put "America first, never sympathizing with terrorists. Unfortunately, Ilhan can't say the same thing."[229] TheDenver Post apologized on Boebert's behalf for her remarks, saying that it was embarrassing that a Colorado representative engaged in such behavior.[230]
In January 2022, Boebert confronted a group ofOrthodox Jews visiting the Capitol and asked them whether they were on areconnaissance mission, which left them confused.[231] She later said the remark was made in jest.[232]
Separation of church and state
"Separation of church and state junk"
The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk. It was not in the Constitution, it was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does.
In late 2022, Boebert told two audiences, "we are in the last of the last days", and that they would have a role in "ushering in the second coming of Jesus".[241][242]
Personal life
Boebert lived with her husband, Jayson Boebert, inSilt, Colorado.[243] They have four sons[21] and one grandson.[244] Her mother "inspired me to be a mother when I was 18 years old".[175] Jayson worked in the oil and gas industry prior to opening their restaurant, Shooters Grill, and continued working in that industry even after opening the restaurant.[14][245]
Jayson registered the company Boebert Consulting LLC in 2012 and "provided drilling services as an on-site drilling foreman" to Terra Energy since 2017.[246] In her 2021 filing with the House of Representatives, Boebert reported her husband's income as a consultant for Terra Energy at $460,000 in 2019 and $478,000 in 2020.[28]
On May 11, 2023, Boebert filed for divorce from her husband, citing "irreconcilable differences".[247][248][249] The divorce was finalized on October 10, 2023.[250]
On April 3, 2024, Boebert was hospitalized after feeling severe swelling in her left leg. ACT scan showed a blood clot, which was successfully removed in a surgery. She was also diagnosed withMay–Thurner syndrome.[251]
Legal issues
In 2015, Boebert was detained at a music festival for shouting at a group of people arrested forunderage drinking, yelling that the arrest wasunconstitutional because they had not receivedMiranda warnings. Deputies reported she "encouraged people arrested for underage drinking to break free and repeatedly said she had 'friends at Fox News' who would report on her subsequent 'illegal arrest'". She was cited formisdemeanordisorderly conduct and twice failed to appear in court on the charge. The charge was later dismissed because theMesa Countydistrict attorney's office believed there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction if the case went to trial.[252][253]
In 2016, Boebert was cited forcareless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle. On February 13, 2017, she was arrested and booked in Garfield County Jail forfailure to appear in court on these charges. She pleaded guilty to the unsafe vehicle charge, and the careless driving and failure to appear charges were dismissed.[254]
On September 10, 2023, Boebert and a male companion were removed by security staff from a performance of the musicalBeetlejuice in a theater inDenver, Colorado, after she and her companion caused a disturbance byvaping, singing, recording the performance, and groping each other.[101][255][256] Boebert initially denied having vaped as well as causing a disturbance, writing on social media that she pleaded "guilty to laughing and singing too loud!" After surveillance video footage of the incident was released, she apologized for "[falling] short of her values" and vaping. She said that "she had previously denied it only because she 'did not recall' having done so".[257][255][258] The video also showed Boebert's companion fondling her breasts and Boebert caressing his genitalia while they were in their seats.[257][258] Months later, Boebert described the incident as a "very private moment" that the media had broadcast.[259][260]
Electoral history
2020 election cycle
2020 Colorado's 3rd congressional district Republican primary[261]
^Court records disprove these allegations[145] and courts have generally rejected these comparisons.[146][147]
^The methodology by which theAmerican Action Forum, a conservative think tank, came to the figure (the study cited a range of $51–93 trillion) is disputed byFactCheck.org.[182]
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^Erku, Ray K. (July 13, 2022)."Shooters Grill no more".Glenwood Springs Post Independent.Archived from the original on July 20, 2022. RetrievedJuly 13, 2022.
^abWatrel, Robert H.; Maier, Kimberly Johnson; Davidson, Fiona M.; Heppen, John; Weichelt, Ryan; Fouberg, Erin H.; Archer, J. Clark; Morrill, Richard; Shelley, Fred M. (April 4, 2022).Atlas of the 2020 Elections. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 233.ISBN978-1-5381-5198-3.Archived from the original on September 16, 2023. RetrievedFebruary 5, 2022.
^"FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 172".clerk.house.gov. Washington, D.C.: U.S. House of Representatives. June 17, 2021.Archived from the original on June 27, 2021. RetrievedJune 17, 2021.
^Bump, Philip (March 19, 2021)."The emerging far-right 'no' caucus in the House".The Washington Post.Archived from the original on March 20, 2021. RetrievedMarch 20, 2021.It's also worth noting that the coup in Myanmar has been viewed with approval by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a movement to which both Greene and Boebert have been linked.
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