Horsford even requested that Higgins be reprimanded for the post because he used his official account to “publicly slander, insult and disparage all Haitians and Haitian-Americans in an openly racist post.”

Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana objected, pointing out that the tweet had been deleted while threatening to go through “every comment from the other side.”

Horsford, however, was far from the only member of Congress who disagreed with Higgins’ post. “One of the most racist and bigoted posts I have ever seen from a fellow member of Congress,” Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida wrote on X. “And from his official government account, no less. Disgusting.”

House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) also called the matter “repulsive” and released a statement calling Higgins “an election-shy, conspiracy-theory-spreading racist arsonist who is a disgrace to the people’s House of Representatives.”

Higgins is no stranger to spreading anti-black racism. In 1992, Higgins, then an Army military politician, referred to former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke as a “homeboy” during Duke’s unsuccessful run for president.

“Regardless of the fact that David is a homeboy and all that, the boy is a Nazi, and that is a real problem,” Higgins said The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and added that he had actually voted for Duke in the 1991 gubernatorial race.

Higgins is also a staunch Trump supporter and has spread several conspiracy theories popular among MAGA supporters, including that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was staged by the FBI.