Ted Yoho resigned from the board of Bread for the World, a Christian charitable organisation working to eradicate hunger. This move has come as a result of his face-off with Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York.

This was confirmed by the Deputy Director of Strategic Communications and Campaigns for Bread for the World, Chris Ford, on Saturday in a statement issued to CNN. It was reported that the organisation has sought his resignation as an action to reform the commitment to women or people of colour, nationally and globally in the path to a racially inclusive and equitable world.

“We believe that Rep. Ted Yoho’s recent actions and words as reported in the media are not reflective of the ethical standards expected of members of our Board of Directors,” the organization wrote in a statement.

Ted Yoho faced flak after calling Democrat representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a ‘f*****g b***h’ outside a courthouse when she had gone there to vote. Ocasio-Cortez on Friday rejected Yoho’s claim that “no one was accosted, bullied or attacked” during their exchange this week, saying that Yoho and a Texas Republican lawmaker were both lying as she revealed new details about the viral incident.

Bread for the World is a Christian advocacy organization based in the United States. It has ties with many NGOs linked to the church in India.

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Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the upper House of the US Parliament to accuse Congressman Ted Yoho, for having used sexist slurs against her. This has come to be seen as an extraordinary moment in the United States house of representatives as she took down the “sexist culture of accepting violence in violent language against women”, of which even the country’s president has been accused of.

The BBC reported that Ocasio-Cortez was entering the Congress to vote when Ted Yoho had interjected her along with Texas congressman Roger Williams and had called her “disgusting” and said that “she was out of her freaking mind”. When she had retorted and called him rude, he had called her “a f***ing b***h” before leaving.

Following this, the New York City Democrat made a powerful speech calling this a ‘pattern’ of bad behaviour by men and said, “This issue is not about one incident. It is cultural,” she told lawmakers, calling it a culture “of accepting violence and violent language against women, an entire structure of power that supports that”. “When you do that to any woman, what Mr Yoho did was give permission to other men to do that to his daughters,” she added. “In using that language, in front of the press, he gave permission to use that language against his wife, his daughters, women in his community, and I am here to stand up to say that is not acceptable.”

She added that, she was prepared to let the incident go until Mr Yoho “made excuses” by citing his wife and daughters in a speech on Wednesday, and said, “I am someone’s daughter too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr Yoho treated his daughter.”

Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman who has made her mark as one of Congress’s most outspoken progressives, on the House floor on Thursday described the incident.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Delivers a Lesson in Decency on the House Floor https://t.co/pphDhNcGlM via @NewYorker

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 24, 2020

She never raised her hand.
She didn’t even raise her voice.
But the entire nation will hear her.

Yesterday, @AOC delivered one of the most thorough thrashings the Capitol has ever seen. And she did it with dignity, eloquence and poisehttps://t.co/k30BeUXLuH pic.twitter.com/OXvOgMtrRZ

— Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) July 24, 2020

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