GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) got into a physical altercation with a protester on Thursday outside of the Longworth House Office Building.

The demonstrator approached Burchett with criticism on the handling of the war in Gaza and later bumped the lawmaker.

The Tennessee representative responded to being physically accosted by pushing the individual.

“Everyone has a right to their opinion, and they can say all of the filthy stuff they want. But they don’t have the right to bump the congressman,” Burchett’s spokesperson, Will Garrett, said in a statement to The Hill.

Capitol Police declined to comment on the matter but did question the protester involved, as reported by Politico.

Last year, Burchett introduced a resolution to reject the United Nations’s decision to place the Israel Defe

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