Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta confronted Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy to ask him the reason he voted in favor of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and he got more than he bargained for.

“Congressman, can I ask you about this Gulf of America thing? Why did you vote for that? Why do you care? Why not focus on the stuff that people care about?” the reporter said.

“I explained this to the rules committee. I was very clear about it. Why do Democrats care about their freaking pronouns in all of their social media? Why do the Democrats wanna talk about birthing persons? Why do they — because —,” the representative responded.

“Yeah, but it’s the Gulf of Mexico,” Acosta insisted.

“Words matter,” the Congressman hit back.

“It’s called the Gulf of Mexico, aren’t you just doing Trump’s bidding? Isn’t that what this is?” Acosta said before Roy responded with “Who are you?”

“My name is Jim Acosta. I’m a journalist here in Washington. I’m asking a question,” the former CNN anchor responded.

“And why are you focusing on this?” Roy said.

“I’m asking you that question. Because you just spent the time of the House of Representatives to vote on something that — people aren’t gonna call it Gulf of America. They’re gonna call Gulf of Mexico,” Acosta said.

“Jim, what do you think we’re spending time on today? Undoing the damage of the Biden administration, trying to save people’s lives in Texas who are dying because of the by the administration’s policies,” the Congressman said.

“What damage? The economy was moving in the right direction. Now it’s now the stock market is tanking —…” Acosta claimed, falsely.

The congressman asked Acosta why he was not focused on a woman who was murdered by Tren de Aragua but the former CNN anchor did not want to talk about that.

“What does that have to do with Gulf of America? And what does that have to do with fixing the economy?” he said.

“What, because right now what we’re doing is undoing the damage of the Biden administration who was killing Americans, and by the way, who are damaging Americans with his ridiculous inflationary economy. That’s the truth,” the Congressman hit back.

“The inflation — as you know, the inflation numbers were moving in the right direction. You know that,” Acosta said.

“The inflation that was being driven up by Biden with the rampant spending, was destroying the net worth of American people,” Roy said.