Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar blasted Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy over the Republican's menace to take away her and Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff from their committees when Republicans management the Home come January.
On Fox Information Sunday, McCarthy mentioned he'll persist with a promise he made earlier this 12 months to take away California's Swalwell and Schiff from the Home Intelligence Committee, and take away Omar from her place on the Home Overseas Affairs Committee, decrying what he known as Omar's previous "antisemitic feedback."
In a press release posted to Twitter, Minnesota's Omar mentioned McCarthy's efforts do "nothing to deal with the problems our constituents take care of" and "nothing to deal with inflation, well being care, or clear up the local weather disaster."
"As an alternative of doing something to deal with the open hostility in the direction of spiritual minorities in his occasion, McCarthy is now lifting up folks like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Emmer and so many others," she wrote. "If he cared about addressing the rise in hate, he would apologize and ensure others in his occasion apologized. McCarthy's effort to repeatedly single me out for rating and hatred — together with threatening to strip me from my committee — does nothing to deal with the problems our constituents take care of. It does nothing to deal with inflation, well being care or clear up the local weather disaster."
Schiff and Swalwell haven't but publicly responded to McCarthy's pledge to take away them from the Home Intelligence Committee.
Eradicating any of these members from their committees would require a full vote within the Home, with a majority voting to take away her. It isn't one thing McCarthy might do unilaterally to a member of the other occasion.
And speakership is way from assured for the California Republican, who would want 218 votes to be come the following speaker. A rising variety of Republicans are threatening to tank his probabilities, regardless of McCarthy successful the GOP nomination for speaker.