Lauren Boebert stopped to talk to TMZ on the Capitol steps this week and said what every Republican in Washington has been quietly thinking about Tom Kean Jr. — the New Jersey congressman who has not been seen for months and has now missed over 100 House votes.

“Where is he? No, seriously. It’s embarrassing,” she told TMZ — then added the line that stopped everyone cold: “I’m not saying he’s dead, but come on — where is the representation? That is taxation without representation, is it not?” President Trump had just written that Kean was working tirelessly and would never let his constituents down — right before the congressman won his primary unopposed without showing up for a single event. Lauren Boebert said what nobody else in that building had the courage to say out loud — and now the whole country wants to know the same thing she does.