Bowman, D-N.Y., made that comment at a press conference demanding House Democratic leaders call a vote on a resolution removing Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., from her committee assignments.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other party leaders hemmed and hawed all week about whether they would back such a move. They ended the week without taking action.

“We’re not going to go for their anti-vaxxing,” Pelosi said when asked if House Democrats could pass a bill to prevent a government shutdown with a GOP-backed provision defunding President Biden’s vaccine mandates attached.

But just a few days later, two Senate Democrats, Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, supported a resolution that would invalidate Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses.

Those two intra-party disagreements in the last week and a half are the latest examples of internal dissent that’s plagued Democrats all year on issues large and small. Democrats’ biggest agenda items – their massive reconciliation spending bill and the infrastructure bill – are where these divisions are exposed the most.